The prisoners escaped from the Orleans Justice Centre in New Orleans (AP)
Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail on Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall while the lone guard assigned to their cell pod was away getting food, authorities said.
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