It didn't take long for a McAlester state prison inmate to be recaptured Saturday morning.
Correction officers say 51-year-old Mark Thompson walked away from work duty around 3:30 a.m.
He didn't get very far. Thompson was recaptured around 6 a.m, only a few miles away.
Thompson would have been released in May of 2017. With his new escape charge, his time in jail will now be longer.
He's serving a four-year sentence for a Tulsa County burglary conviction.