New Orleans Sheriff CHARGED In Connection With 10-Inmate Jailbreak

Accountability is coming to Louisiana.

A New Orleans Sheriff has been charged a year after 10 inmates escaped from the Orleans Justice Center.

In case you never saw the footage, here’s the moment the inmates escaped:

Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson has been charged in connection with the jailbreak due to falsifying records and obstructing justice.

Fox News provided further details on the indictment and the charges the sheriff faces:

A Louisiana sheriff is facing a slew of charges stemming from the infamous New Orleans jailbreak that resulted in one of the largest inmate escapes in U.S. history.

Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson, 59, was issued a sweeping 30-count indictment alleging obstruction of justice, malfeasance and falsifying public records on Wednesday, according to a press release from Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s office.

Chief Financial Officer Bianka Brown was also slapped with 20 felony counts, officials added.

The charges stem from a May 2025 incident in which 10 inmates escaped from the Orleans Justice Center, Murrill’s office said.

“Nearly a year ago, I made a commitment to the people of New Orleans and the people of our state that those responsible for the Orleans Parish Prison break would be held accountable,” Murrill said in a statement.

“Since that day, through the hard work of my office, along with the Louisiana State Police and our many federal, state and local law enforcement partners, every escapee is behind bars, and others who facilitated and enabled the escape are currently being prosecuted.”

Murrill also alleges Hutson’s poor leadership played a key role in the escape of nearly a dozen dangerous inmates, including some facing murder charges, after they broke out of jail from behind a toilet.

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DEI disaster Susan Hutson, hand-picked and bankrolled by George Soros, has officially been indicted.pic.twitter.com/Z76SCDyxb7

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Police 1 reported the inmates wrote on the wall before breaking out that the escape was “to easy”:

The escapees left behind graffiti that read “To Easy LoL” after crawling through a hole behind a jail toilet and scaling a barbed wire fence. The jail did not realize the inmates were missing for more than seven hours.

State officials and some city leaders accused Hutson of poor management and criticized her for not alerting police and other authorities in a timely manner. Hutson initially blamed political opponents for being behind the jailbreak without providing any evidence to support her claim. She also said faulty door locks enabled the escape and added that she had been seeking funding to improve the jail’s ailing infrastructure.

The Orleans Parish jail system had been plagued by violence, corruption and dysfunction for decades and was placed under federal oversight in 2013. But problems persisted despite tens of millions of dollars in investment and the opening of a new jail facility in 2015. Federally-appointed monitors warned of the jail’s inadequate staffing, lax supervision and a skyrocketing number of “internal escapes” in the two years leading up to the jailbreak.

Take a look:

🇺🇸 NEW ORLEANS JAIL ESCAPE: 2 MORE ARRESTED FOR AIDING INMATES ON THE RUN

Cortnie Harris and Corvanntay Baptiste have been arrested for allegedly helping inmates escape from the Orleans Parish jail.

Police say Harris drove fugitives across New Orleans.

Baptiste allegedly fed… https://t.co/JXPfGbumbG pic.twitter.com/A0ECYdNk2K

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 21, 2025