A manhunt is underway for 18 year old Laytwan Jackson. The Ingham county teen ran away from the minimum security Mid-Michigan Correctional Facility in St. Louis, Gratiot County.

A prison spokesman says Jackson was working in a maintenance building outside the secure perimeter this morning when he disappeared.

Jackson was serving a two-and-a-half to 15 year prison sentence for home invasion in Ingham county. He was sentenced February 13th.