A massive prison escape in New Orleans has turned into a multistate manhunt. In the meantime, state and federal authorities are investigating how this could have happened. And wondering why the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office reacted so slowly.
The early Friday morning escape involved 10 inmates who carved a hole through a cell wall, darted across Interstate 10, and vanished into the night.
Prison Escape in New Orleans Details
The jailbreak occurred shortly after midnight on Friday, when a corrections technician reportedly stepped away from monitoring cameras to get food.
During this lapse, inmates inside Cell Delta 1006 began yanking on the faulty door until it gave way. They then maneuvered through the facility, slipped behind a metal toilet, and escaped through a hole in the wall.
In a bold move, the inmates left a mocking message above the escape hole: “To Easy LoL.”
The escape wasn’t discovered until a routine head count at 8:30 a.m., over eight hours after it happened. Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson later admitted, “There is no way people can get out of this facility without there being some type of lapse in security.”
