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Sawed pipes and taunting messages: How a mass escape exposed a New Orleans jail’s security failures
The audacious feat, one of the biggest jailbreaks in Louisiana history, exploited safety issues in the jail that had ...
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After jailbreak, New Orleans DA asks Sheriff Hutson to turn over evidence and process scene
Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson faced a new round of criticism Thursday over last week's brazen jailbreak and her ...
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Maintenance worker arrested for aiding New Orleans jail escape says inmate threatened to ‘shank’ him
Sterling Williams (Louisiana Attorney General's office ... Sheriff says 10 inmates escaped New Orleans jail in 'unacceptable situation' Three Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office employees have ...
The Hill3d
New Orleans jail employee arrested as 6 escaped inmates remain at large
A maintenance worker at the New Orleans jail where 10 inmates escaped ... their daring jailbreak at about 1 a.m. EDT Friday. Sterling Williams, 33, faces 10 charges of assisting escape and one ...
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A maintenance worker is charged in connection with the New Orleans jail break
NEW ORLEANS (AP ... The maintenance worker, Sterling Williams, 33, admitted to law enforcement that one of the escapees “advised him to turn the water off in the cell” before the men ...
New Orleans district attorney blasts sheriff over botched prison escape investigation
Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams scorched Sheriff Susan Hutson for failing to order an investigation into the ...