New Orleans jail worker arrested
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A maintenance worker at the jail was accused of turning off the water in a cell, allowing 10 inmates to escape, the Louisiana attorney general’s office said.
Authorities say 10 men broke out of a New Orleans jail by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet. Seven of them are still on the lam.
Outrage doesn’t begin to describe the reaction from New Orleanians and people around the state to the shocking mass breakout from the Orleans Justice Center, run by the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office.
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