shows an opening inside a cell at the Orleans Justice Center in New Orleans. (AP Photo) This photo combo shows inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail, from left top: Keith A Lewis ...

Sheriff Susan Hutson earlier said the inmates had yanked a sliding door from their jail cell off its tracks in the early hours of Friday morning. They later ripped the toilet off the wall and ...

One of the escapees told Williams to cut the water to a specific jail cell, according to Murrill. Instead of alerting other jail workers, Williams cut the water, allowing the men to escape through ...

An Orleans Parish jail employee who was arrested Monday and ... investigators an inmate told him to turn off the water in the cell where inmates escaped. Instead of reporting the inmate, Williams ...

but was later determined to have been relocated to another cell without the proper update in facility records. Hutson said the escape was the result of ongoing deficiencies in the jail’s aging ...

but almost impossible for anybody to get out of this facility without help,” she said of the jail, where 1,400 people are being held. The escapees yanked open a door to enter the cell with the ...

The inmates, including several locked up on murder raps, broke out of the Orleans Parish Jail early Friday in an audacious overnight escape as the lone guard assigned to their cell pod was away ...

Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall while the lone guard assigned to their cell pod was ...