KLAMATH, Calif. -- Authorities were searching Saturday for an inmate who escaped from a minimum security prison in northern California, the California Department of Corrections announced.

Justin William Hardin, 35, was last seen at around 11:30pm local time Friday at Alder Creek Conservation Camp near Klamath, south of the Oregon border.

He is a white man of medium build with green eyes and brown hair. He was wearing gray sweatpants, a gray shirt and a light-colored beanie when prison officials last saw him, the Department of Corrections said.

Hardin was serving a sentence for corporal injury on a spouse. He was scheduled to be paroled in November 2013.