An interview worker from a New Orleans prison where 10 detainees escaped were arrested and accused of helping to facilitate escape, officials announced on Tuesday.
Sterling Williams, an interview worker from Orleans Parish Justice Center, was arrested and reserved in prison on Tuesday morning, ABC News told ABC familiar with arrest.
Williams would have closed water in toilet to help escape in an apparent attempt to help free a way for prisoners to escape, sources said.
The Orleans Justice Center cell in New Orleans where prisoners have apparently escaped.
Office of the Orleans parish sheriff
Williams faces 10 counts in principle to a simple escape and a chief of ignorance in office.
Three other prison employees were suspended in this investigation.
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