KENOSHA - Authorities are intensifying their search for a Milwaukee man and felony murder convict who escaped from a minimum security facility in Kenosha.

A spokesman for the state Department of Corrections says 29-year-old Eric Adams ran from officers about 5:30 p.m. Friday after they found him talking on a cell phone in his room.

Spokesman John Dipko says Adams fled through an unlocked door at the Kenosha Correctional Center, which has no perimeter fence and is primarily for inmates on work release.

Dipko says Adams was serving a 20-year sentence for a 1999 felony murder-armed robbery but was up for parole this October. He says Adams had earned his spot at the minimum security facility through good behavior. "He had been in our prison system for a little over 10 years, and had demonstrated a pattern of positive behavior to the point where he had essentially earned his way down to a lower security status," Depko said.

Adams is an African American, 6 feet tall and 170 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes. He also has a scar on his forehead and right elbow as well as tattoos on his both arms.

His last known address is in the city of Milwaukee.

If you have information, you are asked to call police.