Henry Peters still on the run from Lotus Glen prison farm in Far North Queensland

The search for a prisoner who escaped from a Far North Queensland correctional centre has entered its third day.

The hunt for an escaped prisoner who absconded from a Far North correctional centre has entered its third day with police confirming the man has not yet been located.

On Thursday a Queensland Police spokeswoman said Henry Peters, a 28-year-old prisoner who escaped the Lotus Glen Correctional Centre farm in the early hours of February 7, remained at large.

Peters who set off a manhunt across the Far North, is serving two years for break and enter including violence or threats.

Staff escort prisoners through Queensland; Lotus Glen Correctional Centre. On February 7, Henry Peters, 28, escaped the facility’s farm. File Picture: Daniel Soekov for Human Rights Watch

Queensland Police and Queensland Corrective Services are working together to search for Peters who is described as 174cm tall, about 63kg of medium build. He has dark complexion, brown eyes, black hair and has a scar on his left eyebrow.

Police are urging the public not to approach Henry Peters who has absconded from the Lotus Glen Correctional Centre. Picture: Supplied

A Queensland Corrective Services spokesman said the department is constantly reassessing the security of correctional centres and the security level of prisoners.

“Every year thousands of prisoners live successfully in low security environments in Queensland, he said.

“Absconds occur occasionally from low security facilities, which place more responsibility on prisoners to abide by the rules of the centre than on physical containment”.

Henry Peter’s escape on February 7, 2023, was the second time in three months that a prisoner has absconded from the Lotus Glen farm facility after 30-year-old Philemon Warradoo was returned to custody in November after escaping the low security facility. FILE PICTURE: STEWART McLEAN

Police urge the public not to approach the man but to contact police immediately.

If you have information for police, contact Policelink by providing information using the online suspicious activity form 24 hours per day at police.qld.gov.au/reporting or call 131 444.

Originally published as Henry Peters still on the run from Lotus Glen prison farm in Far North Queensland