VIDEO: New Surveillance Footage Shows Audacious New Orleans Jailbreak
On May 16, ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail shortly after midnight, escaping through a hole in a wall while a guard had “stepped away briefly for food.” New surveillance footage from the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office shows the jailbreak at the Orleans Justice Center. According to the sheriff’s office, at 12:22 am, “several inmates were observed jarring open the sliding door to cell D1006. By 12:43 am, multiple inmates entered that cell. At 1:00 am, they exited the loading dock door adjacent to the pod and moved down a secure perimeter road toward the under-construction Phase III facility. At 1:19 am, they were seen scaling a fence between the OJC and Phase III using blankets to avoid injury from the barbed wire.” Several of the inmates have since been arrested. (Credit: Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office via Storyful)
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