2 prisoners walk away from Maine prison

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Law enforcement officials are looking for two prison inmates who walked away from the minimum security Charleston Correctional Facility in Maine.

Charleston Correctional Facility

Phillip Gardiner

Charleston Correctional Facility

Randall Moulton

State police, deputies and dog teams were searching Monday morning around Pushaw Road in Glenburn.

Judy Plummer of the Maine Department of Corrections says the two left the prison grounds at 8 p.m. Sunday. There's no fence around the perimeter.

She identified the two as 20-year-old Randall Moulton of Bangor and 25-year-old Phillip Gardiner of Belfast. Both were in prison for burglary and other charges. She says Moulton was due to be released later this year and Gardiner was due to be released in 2014.

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