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In poor safety protocols, a serial escape artist and nine others were able to break out of A New Orleans Prison for a former federal prison.
“First of all, this prison was regarded as a train accident in relation to basic prison operations,” Cameron Lindsay told Fox News Digital.
Lindsay worked in the federal prison system for 20 years, seven of them as supervisors. He was once the notorious overseer Metropolitan detention center In Brooklyn. It also served as a supervisor in two private prisons. Now he is a consultant and expert.
“It seems that basic security inspections in prison have not taken place. Insmits should never be able to tear down a toilet from a wall and just go to the circumference fence,” he said. “I mean, I just can’t believe that.”
This photo shows the hole that was left behind by inmates that have escaped the municipal prison in Orleans. (Office of the Sheriff of the municipality of Orleans)
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In 2013, the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office (Opso), which heads the community correction of the municipality of Orleans, had a declaration of consent with the Ministry of Justice to keep prison into operation. The decree came from civil rights violations, and Opso agreed to the federal government’s supervision and the horrible compliance checks.
The latest of them Compliance Check reports shows that the prison was completely compliant with 42% of the decrees and was completely not complicated with at least 5% of them. It partly corresponds to about 53% of the measures.
The report published in October 2024 draws a picture of completely inadequate occupant supervision, which leads to violence and the use of illegal drugs, shakedown and extortion schemes and occupants, which have unlimited time to work out weapons from everyday prisons.
Sheriff Susan Hutson speaks on May 20, 2025 in the town hall in New Orleans. (Sophia Germer/Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate about AP)
“During the monitoring period, there were considerable incidents of violence in the facilities;” the level of violence in the facility was still at a high level during this surveillance period. “
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“The inmates seem to be encouraged in their refusal, to comply with the rules and to follow the instructions of the security personnel,” the report said. “It is very worrying that both employees and occupants continue to forward to the monitors that there are inmates that act as” tank bosses “and blackmail other occupants and need payment for protection.”
The law enforcement authorities are looking for a refugee in New Orleans on May 21, 2025. (Chris Granger/Times-Picayune/the New Orleans Advocate about AP)
There was also no prison monitoring system to check whether security checks were carried out and were reported at regular intervals.
These failures have come into focus since the early hours of May 17th when 10 inmates broke out of prison and let Amok in the New Orleans region.
Until Friday afternoon, five of them remained at large.
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“Insace security controls represent a critical minimum standard accepted by the industry,” Lindsay told Fox News Digital. “The failure to carry them out [a] Lack of effective correction guidance and possibly lack of funding. “
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One of the 10 refugees was Antoine Massey, who was captured in prison because of the domestic abuse with strangulation, theft of a motor vehicle and a violation of the probation officer. He was also sought in the St. Tammany Parish for rape and kidnapping, According to Fox 8.
Massey had escaped three times since 2007 and was no longer entitled to be released with an electronic ankle monitor because he repeatedly cut it off.
Antoine Massey (Office of the Sheriff of the municipality of Orleans)
Massey was still at large on Friday afternoon.
Linsday said that in his view, opso should have taken as a supervisor Exceptional precautionary measures with MasseyKnowing that he had such a story.
“He would be the safest place in prison,” he said. “All employees would be informed about this person, and given his incredibly high escape risk, I would have to need frequent checks documented at least every 30 minutes according to an irregular schedule.”
“I would also insist on documented correctional and supervisor rounds to ensure that the lines’ employees follow strictly guidelines for inmates of this caliber, which are the greatest threat to the community,” he said.
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Lindsay criticized the lead in prison.
“I don’t know why they would have nine people on a cell in such a cell,” he said. “It just doesn’t sound like it was a well -operated correction device. It sounds like it is a chaos.”
The Orleans Community Prison can be seen on May 16, 2025 in New Orleans. (Brett Duke/the lawyer about AP)
“And I tell you something, here is another thing that speaks to me about the ineffectiveness of this facility,” he said. “I would tell you that you know the first about emergency preparation, because if you have an escape, there should be an immediate answer. There should be no delay at all. This information should go to the law enforcement authorities and the community.”
The inmates escaped in the early morning hours of May 16, but the prison staff did not notice that they were missing by around 8:30 a.m. City council meeting After escape.
The superintendent of the New Orleans police, Anne Kirkpatrick, was informed of one of her captains about the flight, which heard about it in the media.
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“An escape is the epitome of corrections,” said Lindsay.
“It is the fundamental failure, since your goal No. 1 is to protect the community and then protect the staff and protect the occupants. However, your destination No. 1 is to ensure that these occupants are separated from the free society. So you have to prevent an escape.”
The Sheriff’s office in Orleans Parish did not answer a request for comments.
