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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jim Mustian and Jack Brook

EXPLAINED: New orleans jail system was troubled decades before 10 inmates made an audacious escape - The Real Truth

New Orleans Escaped Inmates - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

In the city that care forgot, the party had made its way into the prison.

More than a decade before the recent New Orleans jailbreak, the city's lawless lockup went viral in a series of videos showing inmates chugging Budweiser, snorting drugs, gambling with handfuls of cash and ejecting bullets from a handgun.

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