CLINTON TOWNSHIP — Local and state authorities are searching for two prisoners who escaped from a Hunterdon County correctional facility Sunday night, officials said.



Corey Agostarola, 21, and Michael Bentley, 23, disappeared from the Mountainview Youth Correctional Facility in Annandale around 9:30 p.m., according to Deirdre Fedkenheuer, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections. The men were last seen around 8 p.m., but corrections officers realized they were missing at 9:30 p.m. and declared them missing by 10 p.m., she said.



No officers were harmed during the escape, but it remains unclear how Agostarola and Bentley busted out, according to Fedkenheuer.



Both men would have been eligible for parole in less than a year, according to corrections records. Bentley was being held on several theft and burglary charges and was incarcerated in January of this year. Agostarola was imprisoned on weapons and burglary charges from Camden County, and had been locked up since March of 2011.



Both the Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office and the N.J. State Police are actively looking for the men, according to Fedkenheuer, who said the prisoners will likely face escape charges that could add 3 to 5 years to their sentences.

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