Police are asking citizens to be on the look-out for a man that escaped from the Golden Grove on Saturday.

Reports indicate that around 6:30 am on Saturday, prisoners at the Arouca facility were being escorted to a garden just outside the prison.

Two of the prisoners attempted to escape and one was re-captured a short while later.

The other prisoner remains at large.

The Joint protective services are staging a nationwide manhunt in search of the escapee.