52 h. ago Brazen Instagram post of New Orleans jail escapee who insists 'I'm innocent'

Antoine Massey, still on the run after escaping more than two weeks ago from a New Orleans jail, says the "the system has failed a lot of people and not just me"

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53 h. ago Authorities investigating a new social media post by a New Orleans jail escapee on the run

Authorities are investigating an Instagram photo showing a man who identifies himself as Antoine Massey, a fugitive still at large after escaping more than two weeks ago from a New Orleans jail

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4 d. ago New Orleans jail escapee releases videos, prompting search of home where they were made, source says

A man who identifies himself as New Orleans jail escapee Antoine Massey released videos on social media while still on the run from authorities

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7 d. ago Family and friends of escaped New Orleans inmates arrested for aiding in jail breakout

The escaped inmates have been provided food, cash, transport and shelter according to court documents

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8 d. ago A growing number of New Orleans fugitives' friends and family arrested for aiding in jail escape

The 10 men who escaped from a New Orleans jail more than two weeks ago by cutting out a hole behind a toilet received help from at least 14 people, many of them friends and family who provided food, cash, transport and shelter according to court documents

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1 week ago New Orleans jail, site of a brazen inmate escape, faces flooding and plumbing failures

The New Orleans jail where 10 inmates escaped from earlier this month is experiencing “significant flooding” from what a sheriff called “ongoing and severe plumbing failures."

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1 week ago New Orleans escapee’s former principal gives savage seven word response to jailbreak

Escapees Derrick Groves and Antoine Massey are still on the run nearly two weeks later

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1 week ago New Orleans prison escape shock twist as grandma now faces jail time

Connie Weeden, 59, was arrested after she was alleged to have assisted her grandson Jermaine Donald in escaping from the Orleans Justice Center, in Louisiana, earlier this month

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1 week ago New Orleans jail escapee was caught with help from an anonymous tip; 2 inmates still on the run

Police say one of the New Orleans jail escapees who was captured on Monday was found with the help of an anonymous tip from a concerned citizen

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1 week ago Busted doors, cut bars, and a hole behind the toilet: Everything we know with 2 inmates still on the run after Louisiana jail escape

Three people have been arrested in connection with New Orleans jailbreak

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1 week ago More escaped New Orleans inmates captured as manhunt continues for last pair

The extensive search has been ongoing for 10 inmates who escaped via a hole behind a toilet

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1 week ago Authorities say they've captured three more of the 10 escapees who broke out of a New Orleans jail

Authorities say they’ve captured three more of the 10 escapees who broke out of a New Orleans jail

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2 w. ago New arrest over escaped Louisiana prisoners as five fugitives still on the run

Another New Orleans woman has been arrested for allegedly helping some of the 10 inmates after they escaped the Orleans Parish Justice Center on May 16

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2 w. ago Five New Orleans jailbreak fugitives still at large as police arrest alleged helpers

Several people held in connection with jailbreak as manhunt enters second week and criticisms mount over jail managementSeveral people have been arrested on accusations of helping some of the 10 men who broke out of New Orleans’ jail on 16 May – and half of the escapers remained on the run as a manhunt for them entered its second week, according to authorities.Police said on Friday that they had booked Casey Smith, 30, a day earlier on allegations that she provided transportation to at least two of the escapers in the hours after the jailbreak. She had allegedly admitted to doing that alongside another woman whom police took into custody on Wednesday, identified as 32-year-old Cortnie Harris, Smith’s cousin and the girlfriend of one of the escaped men, Leo Tate, 31. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago New Orleans' jail system was troubled decades before 10 inmates made an audacious escape

The recent jailbreak in New Orleans followed decades of dysfunction in the city's jail system and recent warnings that conditions were ripe for catastrophe

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2 w. ago Mistrust in law enforcement complicates the search for the New Orleans jail escapees

As authorities scour New Orleans for escapees from a jailbreak, they're also confronting a history of mistrust in law enforcement and the criminal justice system

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2 w. ago Busted doors, cut bars, and a hole behind the toilet: Everything we know with 5 inmates still on the run after Louisiana jail escape

Three people have been arrested in connection with New Orleans jailbreak

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2 w. ago Men who escaped New Orleans jail had hourslong head start before staff knew they were gone

Days after 10 men escaped from a New Orleans jail by crawling through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall, five have apprehended and five remain at large

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2 w. ago Key update on New Orleans jail break fiasco which saw 10 inmates make daring escape

The lags at the Orleans Parish Jail yanked open a faulty cell door, moved the toilet and slithered through the hole in one of the largest jail breaks in recent US history

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2 w. ago Busted doors, cut bars, and a hole behind the toilet: Everything we know with 6 inmates still on the run after Louisiana jail escape

Three employees have been suspended as sheriff claims that breakout may be tied up in politics around an upcoming sheriff’s election

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