New Orleans sheriff halts reelection campaign
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As the manhunt for the remaining escaped New Orleans inmates continues, Sheriff Susan Hutson has been in the spotlight as local and state officials question how such a large jailbreak was possible and some call for her resignation.
Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson blamed "intentional wrongdoings" from her staff in facilitating last week's escape of 10 inmates. Why it matters: It confirms her earlier statements of the jailbreak potentially being an inside job.
WDSU investigator Aubry Killion spoke with Hutson as she walked into City Hall for a hearing with the New Orleans City Council.
Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson, who oversees the jail from which 10 inmates escaped, spurring a five-day manhunt, apologized for the first time Tuesday as she faced calls to resign.
Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson has announced that she is temporarily suspending her campaign for re-election.
State representative Aimee Adatto Freeman, a Democrat from New Orleans, on Monday (May 19) called for Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson to resign. “The escape of 10 inmates from the Orleans Parish jail is an alarming failure of leadership,
Ten inmates escaped from a New Orleans jail after breaching a wall behind a toilet and possibly having help, the local sheriff said Friday. So far only three of the men have been found. “We have indication that these detainees received assistance in their escape from individuals inside of our department,