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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Sara Cline and Jack Brook

MYSTERIOUS: Sheriff says defective locks were a key factor in louisiana jailbreak by 10 men | Mind Blowing Facts

New-Orleans-Inmates-Escape - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Just days before 10 men broke out of a New Orleans jail, officials with the sheriff's office asked for money to fix faulty locks and cell doors deemed a key factor in the escape.

As the manhunt for the remaining seven fugitives stretches into a new week, officials continue to investigate who or what was to blame in a jailbreak that even the escapees labeled as “easy” — in a message scrawled on a wall above the narrow hole they squeezed through.

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