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Escaped Saskatoon correctional center prisoner, found

May 9, 2011 | 2:15 PM

Saskatoon police have found an escaped prisoner.

The 26-year-old man fled the Correctional Centre in the north end of the city just before 11 a.m. this morning, while he was being processed for a court visit. He was on foot.

Local police took him into custody on a warrant issued in Edmonton for an assault with a weapon charge.

He is a white male is about 5-foot-ten tall, 170 pounds, with short-black hair. He was last seen wearing a black hoodie and a black ball cap. He has a tattoo on his right forearm that reads, “Get rich or die trying.”