CONCORD — A New Hampshire State Prison inmate who walked away from a north end halfway house Friday morning turned himself in Friday afternoon.

Robert Waldo Gallagher II, 43, of Franklin, a minimum security inmate, left the North End Transitional Housing Unit at 7:45 a.m. to go to work. He never arrived and at 9:30 a.m. state prison officials placed him on walkaway status, according to a news release.

Gallagher was sentenced in Grafton County Superior Court to 2 to 4 years on a receiving stolen property conviction. He was sent to the prison on March 10, 2011, and was eligible for parole on March 8, 2013. His sentence ends on March 8, 2015.