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**UPDATE** – Clifton Allen Thames has been captured. LPSO would like to thank the US Marshals Taskforce and the Ascension Parish SO for their assistance.  Thames will be booked in Ascension.

LIVINGSTON, LA – A state inmate in the Livingston work release program walked away from his assignment on Mardi Gras day.

Officials say they have exhausted all efforts in locating 28-year-old Clifton Allen Thames.

Thames was last seen around 10 A.M. on March 5, in the Denham Springs area.

He was working in the construction field at a business located along Hwy 190 in Denham Springs.

Officials say Thames has been working through the Livingston Transitional Work Program since December 2018.

Lock5 LLC runs the Work Release Program in Livingston Parish.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call LPSO at (225) 686-2241, extension 1.