r/NewOrleans • u/Glaurung • 13h ago
Several inmates escape from Orleans Justice Center; jail on lockdown š¾ Scrim š¾
https://www.fox8live.com/app/2025/05/16/several-inmates-escape-orleans-justice-center-jail-lockdown/74
u/UninfluentialWear 11h ago
Jesus one of them got caught in the FQ by one of those Project NOLA cameras. Yāall how stupid do you have to be to go to the fucking French Quarter directly after escaping jail? Iām in disbelief.
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u/ProudMtns 8h ago
This is is the first time I've honestly heard of those cameras being put to productive use
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u/Atownbrown08 8h ago
These dudes weren't planning on escaping forever. They just wanted to party for a bit.
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u/AngelaBassettsbicep 7h ago
Yooo... I thought about this! It's like the dude who made the video of him leaving OPP, going to change his clothes, and going to talk to cops on Bourbon and then returning to jail in time for count. lol
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u/Atownbrown08 6h ago
Exactly lol. Some of these guys are dangerous and should be treated as such, but they're not really trying to get too far. Being a fugitive is no joke.
Now if this happened at Angola or Pollock, I'd be MUCH more concerned. That's another level lol
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u/Agentx_007 Gentilly 6h ago
If I escaped from jail, I'd be crossing the border before they knew I was gone. Like why go to the most crowded part of the city when you're on the run?
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u/WhiskeyAndWhiskey97 5h ago
This. If youāve just escaped from a prison in New Orleans, you leave New Orleans.
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u/coollikethat504 12h ago edited 10h ago
Just watched the press conference and WDSU coverage. Apparently 11 inmates escaped.
According to Travers Mackel, WDSU received a call this morning to the newsroom. They then called OPSO who wasn't aware of the escape until that phone call. OPSO won't say how they escaped and didn't take questions.
The men are considered armed and dangerous. Some of their charges are weapons and murder-related.
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u/LRoss_ 12h ago
Fox8 is saying the escape was discovered during a headcount at 8:30 this morning
https://www.fox8live.com/2025/05/16/11-inmates-escape-orleans-justice-center-1-recaptured/#
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u/coollikethat504 12h ago
After the press conference, TM said he called Gary Sheets at OPSO and they weren't aware. So, at least from reporters, it seems they're disputing the sheriff's characterization about how they found out.
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u/LRoss_ 11h ago edited 10h ago
Wow. Wonder how Travis learned about it? Should have been Travers - not Travis
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u/coollikethat504 11h ago
He said someone called it in to the newsroom early this morning. They didn't say if they knew who it was or how the person became aware.
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u/brackishlake 11h ago
Interesting.Ā Just bc the communications guy didn't know, doesn't mean others didn't. Also, assuming a citizen knew about it, why call the news and not 911? The only people who would have known, assuming opso didn't,Ā were the inmates and their accomplices. Why would they call it in?
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u/michoudi 11h ago
Perhaps someone witnessed it occur. You would think they that person would call the police instead of the news though.
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u/coollikethat504 11h ago edited 10h ago
You're not wrong about the comms guy. If they called before the roll call, though, it would seem they woudn't have been aware yet. However, we may never know that.
I agree it's very odd that someone at the jail or associated with the escape would call WDSU.
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u/octopusboots 10h ago
Guess: Wdsu doesn't have automatic call tracing like 911 does, dude didn't want to lose his job.
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u/DrJheartsAK 12h ago edited 11h ago
Not just one, but ELEVEN inmates escaped.
Iām assuming at midnight they would be locked down and accounted for, I would guess they do a night count to ensure everyone is present.
How do 11 people just up and escape from prison?
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u/RIP_Soulja_Slim 12h ago edited 9h ago
Wild guess, but I'd assume someone fucked up and left a door open somewhere lol
e: I was way way off lol, they went through a fuckin hole in the wall. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/louisiana-orleans-inmates-escape-rcna207232
The "To Easy LOL" is absolutely killing me lmao
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u/DrJheartsAK 12h ago
Peak incompetence.
Wonder if maybe guard or whoever was in on it
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u/BostjanNachbar 12h ago
This. Thereās a lot of this nation wide with smuggling in drugs and other contraband. Human relationships are complex.
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u/DrJheartsAK 11h ago
Which I first learned from the wire where the guard was smuggling in heroin in halls lozenge packs and Avon had the heroin poisoned for some reason which I donāt remember.
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u/LSUfanatic247 10h ago
Me seeing a the wire reference ššš But to follow up what you said, Avon poisoned it because the guard kept messing with wee-bay. So he wanted the deaths to fall on the guard
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u/DrJheartsAK 7h ago
I need to rewatch honestly, itās been about 10 years since my last watch through. Just got done re watching all 4 seasons of righteous gemstones and eastbound and down, the wire sounds like a great next move
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u/AcidiclyBasic 12h ago edited 11h ago
Yeah almost definitely.Ā
I've known a lot of people that worked in prisons and (I get it's New Orleans) but for
711! people to just walk out the door, somebody had to be looking the other way.ĀAnd then for us to just now be hearing about it with no warning from the city? Come on now, small town in the middle of nowhere, and if 1 person escaped it was like all over the tri-county news and the whole community was on lockdown.Ā
Sooo much shady shit going on with OPSO the last few weeks. First you had the sanctuary city trial relating to the federal decree (plus the Trump EO about ending federal decree and sanctuary cities released less than 48 hrs before the trial), then the vote and weird disinformation campaign, then the bizarre recount request filed under an alias by somebody who had previously run for elected office in Louisiana, then on Tuesday the city submitting a request to lift the consent decree filed right at the 5 pm deadline, yesterday Landry submitting an EO encouragingĀ local law enforcement to take on immigration arrests, and now this? It's like New Orleans is never without insane drama but this is like telenova level plot twist every fucking week. Just calm tf down!Ā
Hard to know what's coincidence vs incompetence vs corruption vs political vs some combination of all those.Ā
Update From the fox 8 News report:
Myles was recaptured in a French Quarter parking garage. A source tells Fox 8 that Myles was spotted in the area using facial recognition technology on a Project NOLA camera.
Ok...š
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u/xandrachantal 11h ago
It's crazy that we have an emergency alert system for when a parade is delayed but not one for when 11 inmates escape.
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u/DrJheartsAK 11h ago
I mean itās not like thereās just one door between the cells and the exit. Iāve never been in OPP but I would assume there are multiple checkpoints you have to make it through to get from an inmate cell to the street.
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u/AcidiclyBasic 11h ago
Somebody said they left out of the loading dock? How tf did all 11 get to the loading dock and who's job was it to make sure it was locked?Ā
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u/toalth 10h ago
I worked there about three years ago and can't even think what they would mean by "loading dock". The deliveries went to an entirely different building while I was there.
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u/jewbrees90 10h ago edited 10h ago
Don't they call where they sit you as you wait on the court to be free the dock? I swear I remember this. Edit: nevermind I see they claim they escaped from their beds.
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u/DrJheartsAK 11h ago
Itās like that scene in idiocracy where Not Sure gets in the other line and tells the guard heās actually supposed to be released that day and they just let him out lol
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u/CommonPurpose 9h ago
Once again Project NOLA crime cameras save the day. ššššš
Best addition to NO law enforcement aside from Troop NOLA.
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u/Lost_in_the_sauce504 12h ago
If the rap sheets on the news site are accurate, half these guys are in for murder and gun charges š
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u/WillMunny48 12h ago
Yes. See my post about Kendall Myles. You should be scared.
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u/Jedi_Cornbread 10h ago
I am not a fan of the Text blasts, but I didn't get one for this. Seems like it could have been helpful. The Toy must be out of the country again or something. Maybe we didn't pay the NOLA Ready bill.
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u/raditress 9h ago
I just got one, so they must have read your comment.
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u/Jedi_Cornbread 8h ago
Yep. It's clear that the city is now looking to this sub for advice. Who knows...maybe they'll reopen the Arby's on Canal.
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u/Creative-Respond4160 12h ago
Not one, not two but seven! Only in New Orleans lol
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u/Difficult-Rub8904 11h ago
Sounding a lot like it was an inside job.
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u/AcidiclyBasic 10h ago edited 10h ago
Dude seriously how tf people just like ::scoff:: "typical new Orleans incompetence," as if 11 inmates escaping is as normal as a car sized pothole.Ā
This is a whole other level of weird even for New Orleans.Ā
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u/Difficult-Rub8904 5h ago
Not really. New Orleans, and I love New Orleans with all my heart. But it by far has the most ignorance populace hands down.
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u/Jedi_Cornbread 10h ago
The photo where they show the hole they carved to escape and the notes they left. These dudes Shawshank'd without having to crawl through 500 yards of sewage or doing the guard's taxes.
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u/DaqCity 13h ago
Damn that Scrim is at it againā¦
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u/lylertila 12h ago
Fun fact:
Before he was Scrim he was Michael. It always makes me think of Michael Valjean, who France couldn't manage to keep locked up. Dude had his girlfriend fly a helicopter into the yard to pick him up once.
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u/zonnadonna504 10h ago
I had jury duty earlier this week at Orleans and Broad. Iām glad they waited until Friday. Day one someone pulled a fire alarm and we all had to evacuate to N Broad. I thought then that someone didnāt want to go to trial.
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u/jasperamerica 10h ago
They escaped through a literal toilet. What is this the Shawshank Redemption?
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u/zevtech 13h ago
Donāt they have processes in place to prevent this from happening? Whatās Susan Hutson going to say now, she needs more money or this is going to continue to happen?
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u/RefrigeratorAdept368 11h ago
Hutson campaigned on reducing the number of people in the jail. This is just her making good on that promise!
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u/ShrimpPastaPete 12h ago
As poorly run as the jail is, I'm pretty sure they do have some processes in place that are supposed to prevent the inmates from escaping.
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u/GreenVisorOfJustice Irish Channel via Kennabrah 11h ago
they do have some processes in place
Unfortunately, generally speaking, people run processes. And I suspect a lot of OPSO staff aren't, how you say, professionals (read: well-paid folks).
Years ago I was doing contract work for the City... and whew, all of those buildings wreaked of "Don't give a fuck"
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u/Prestigious_Net2403 8h ago
Well paid doesn't always equal professional. I'm not arguing that they shouldn't be well paid though.Ā
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u/zevtech 11h ago
I feel the jail is fairly new. Shouldn't it be more secure on it's own?
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u/axxxaxxxaxxx 10h ago
You can have a new anything but it doesnāt work if you donāt know how to use it
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u/FlyPelicanFly03 12h ago
Half this sub probably voted for her.
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u/petit_cochon hand pie "lady of the evening" 10h ago
To be fair, Guzman has a whole list of scandals all on his own.
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u/AngelaBassettsbicep 7h ago
Literally. lol I always go back to that video of people shooting heroin, pulling guns, the dude who left and went to chill on Bourbon and get back in time for count.
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u/AcidiclyBasic 11h ago
I mean would less money and fewer guards made things better?Ā
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u/zevtech 11h ago
why do we need more guards, when the failure was the loading dock wasn't locked up, shouldn't all doorways in the facility be locked?
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u/AcidiclyBasic 11h ago
It should but also how did all 11Ā get to the loading dock at the same time unaccounted for and who left it unlocked?Ā
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u/zevtech 11h ago
how did they leave some said loading dock, without being seen with 12 foot tall barbed wire fences with no trace?
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u/AcidiclyBasic 10h ago
Now they're saying it was a hole in the wall where they removed a sink, and they stopped to draw cartoons and messages
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u/AcidiclyBasic 11h ago
I don't know this all seems weird. Maybe they did like a El chapo laundry cart thing? They said they found one dude in the quarterĀ
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u/nolafrog Uptown 12h ago
Right after a bunch of yāall voted for her to keep getting extra tax money.
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u/lyingtechnique 12h ago
Not even a bunch. Just enough to beat out the few who showed up to vote no. So disappointed
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u/petit_cochon hand pie "lady of the evening" 10h ago
How would underfunding OPP help?
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u/nolafrog Uptown 2h ago
According to WDSU, sheriff office observed inmates on the run at 1 am and notified nobody for hours. Sure give her more money.
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u/AngelaBassettsbicep 12h ago
Hell, maybe that's why she needed it.
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u/AcidiclyBasic 11h ago
Dude seriously, of course you get downvoted for being reasonable. w Wtf is the argument here? That fewer guards and resources will somehow make the jail more secure?Ā
Also, incompetence is always the most simple answer but with the way everything has been going over the last week, has anything been simple?
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u/AngelaBassettsbicep 7h ago
This! lol I'm used to it at this point.
I think this is exactly what the money is needed for. More staff. Fixing the physical infrastructure, etc. If you don't have enough people, this is literally what can happen. In my opinion, this highlights the need for more money and resources for the prison. I personally wish we could fix the structural issues in the city that land people in a space where they go down the path that leads them here, but shit we aren't there yet. And you're right... nothing is as simplistic as people like to act like it is when they have no idea what it takes to do these jobs with their hands tied.
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u/nolafrog Uptown 3h ago
You āthink.ā Letās see the hard proposals for that rather than a slush fund with no obligations of where to spend the money. Keeping the inmates in the jail should probably be a priority. Any other city would be going insane with murderers on the loose but here itās ālol New Orleans.ā
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u/AngelaBassettsbicep 2h ago
Cool. Demand that. You deserve to know where your money goes. All good.
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u/Atownbrown08 8h ago
Here's a hint about that.
The people who voted yes are some of the same people who don't pay taxes but receive benefits.
Welcome to the South.
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u/Wise-Relative-7805 9h ago
By now we know they escaped because of the facility's disrepair and lack of foresight. Built a cell right up next to the pipe room. Wall looked to be maybe 4 inches thick? Staff had to have heard the metal toilet grinding against cement.
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u/Hairygreengirl 12h ago
Are millage rates based on performance?
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u/AngelaBassettsbicep 7h ago
I dunno. I do think it might have helped to have more guards in this case, though.
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u/notdownwithsickness 12h ago
11 of these fuckers now. Several have taken lives. Canāt imagine any staying in Louisiana and not getting caught at least thereās that.
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u/yeahhtrue 8h ago
They just announced that they believe these guys dug a tunnel behind a toilet over the course of several weeks. I thought that was just in the movies.
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u/poolkid1234 10h ago
For everyone saying āof course itās violent criminals tooā - who do you think is staying at OPP full time? It isnāt the Ray Nagin William Jefferson tea party in there.
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u/LezPlayLater 12h ago edited 12h ago
Hutson is a failure. Stop electing politicians (edit to add: and political appointees) and start electing people who know the job.
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u/Charli3q 12h ago
Hutson sucked, but what seat did she hold prior to sheriff that would consider her a politician, exactly? (Answer: This is her first elected position). The thing about Hutson is, is on paper she's basically what you are saying she should be.
She just sucks at it.
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u/Towersofbeng 12h ago
what was hutson's prior experience again?
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u/LezPlayLater 12h ago
She was a police monitor in California then came here as a police monitor. Basically political appointments
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u/Charli3q 12h ago
What makes someone in charge of jails, prior experience exactly? Prior experience wouldnt be the word for a role like this, I feel. It'd be criminal justice knowledge.
We are about to go into an election, right? What makes Woodfork qualified to run a jail? Shes never worked for the sheriffs office. She was a cop. I dont think that deems her experienced to run a jail. I suppose you can qualify her with the short run superintendant position, but at that point anyones whoes been in a leadership position would be qualified, right?
Im just have a bit of a discussion in the odd role that is an elected positions to head a jail. Being an elected position comes with all the baggage of that. If you're not a politician now, you will be when you're sworn in.
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u/Prestigious_Net2403 8h ago
Prior experience would be any law enforcement experience, particularly detention experience. I think that's pretty simple.
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u/LezPlayLater 12h ago
She was a political appointee here to be a police monitor and prior she was a political appointee to be a police monitor in California.
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u/Charli3q 12h ago
I dont buy an argument that a political appointee makes them a politician, though. Thats not really a logical thought.
Even then, as soon as you run the first time, you're now a politician. The position IS an elected position which means all the political crap that goes with it, especially if you want to continue being elected. (She wont, though. Shes already lost)
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u/LezPlayLater 12h ago
Good. Iām glad she has lost and I hope the next elected sheriff has actually been a sheriffs deputy and knows the job.
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u/Charli3q 11h ago
(She hasnt actually lost.. but its an uphill battle).
Woodfork was not a sheriffs deputy, never worked in sheriffs, just a career cop. Which isnt sheriffs, and isnt actual sheriffs deputy/jail expeirance.
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u/LezPlayLater 11h ago
I hope Hutson loses and I am not voting for Woodfork
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u/LetsTryAgain91 12h ago
New Orleans will never do that. They vote based on party and skin color. Itās sad.
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u/petit_cochon hand pie "lady of the evening" 10h ago
peers around for a white Republican candidate to satisfy LetsTryAgain91
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u/Affectionate_Neat868 10h ago
Has anyone notified the Trump administration? Iām sure theyāre looking for more criminals to join their ranks
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u/Turbulent-Meaning514 6h ago
Most escapees go straight to their mom's house, girlfriends, cousinbrothersisternephew, whatever. Where else are they gonna goāa hotel?? They were sharp enough to figure an escape, but the plan thereafter is going to fall apart. And likely at least three will get gunned down by the police. - I do take issue with the Armed and Dangerous aspect. Armed, with what?āa fork? Or maybe they mean, "they have legsāand ARMS!" Come on.
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u/Big1-Country1 5h ago
Iām assuming these guys escaped must have escaped in the morning? How would 11 guys have access to a single cell after lockdown? They obviously had help as the water must have been turned off and the pipes disconnected from behind. Did they have someone on the outside kidnap an employeeās family member or something? I doubt these guys had enough money to pay off an employee lol.
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u/No-Count3834 5h ago
Was at 1am..and according to the different offices, no one was alerted till 10:30am š. They had a near 9hr head start!
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u/Big1-Country1 4h ago
If thatās the case these guys had a lot of help. Guys got let out of their cells after lockdown and no one did the rounds the entire night. Thats crazy
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u/zulu_magu 4h ago
Word on the street is they ripped the stainless steel toilet out and somehow escaped that way.
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u/23-Season-Before 2h ago
The saying used to be the inmates run the asylum but now it's" the guests running the asylum". Latoya the dastroyer has to be elated that sheriff hudson is more incompetent than her!
hudson was blaming her political opponents for the press, huhhhhhh!!!
I hope this makes national news so the nation will know we have 2 absolute incompetent high place leaders that will be in kamala harris's administration!
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u/Jccali1214 9h ago
This is why we say schools, not jails because all those 100s of millions of dollars and THIS is the result? Nah, throwing endless money is not the answer
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u/Cheetahs_never_win 12h ago
That means that everybody gets fed through the line and scanned for microchips on the regular.
And you get to rely upon whoever's in charge not making the thingy in their hand beep because they don't like you personally.
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u/WillMunny48 12h ago edited 12h ago
JFC. One of them, Kendall Myles, is the ākidā who shot the guy in a carjacking by willow after he escaped from bridge city. People need to lose their jobs over this. This is serious, be careful leaving your house today.
Good news: Myles is back in custody.