CBS Evening News, 05/20/25

CBS Evening News

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🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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0:00.0	From CBS News Headquarters in New York, this is the CBS Evening News.
0:08.0	Good evening. I'm John Dickerson.
0:12.0	I'm Maurice Dubois.
0:13.0	There are more than a million inmates in America's prisons and jails tonight, minus six,
0:19.0	and we're still on the run after busting out of a New Orleans jail on Friday.
0:22.9	They were among 10 who escaped the four others have been captured.
0:27.7	Now a maintenance worker at the jail has been arrested for allegedly helping with the
0:31.8	breakout.
0:32.9	Three other employees of the Sheriff's Department have been suspended.
0:37.1	One of the fugitives is a convicted murderer.
0:39.7	Three others are charged with murder,
0:41.6	so they are all considered dangerous.
0:43.6	Katie Weiss is a CBS News correspondent in New Orleans.
0:46.3	And Katie, what is the latest on the manhunt
0:48.1	and the investigation tonight?
0:52.0	Well, good evening, Maurice.
0:53.6	We're learning who helped these inmates escape and also it was allegedly a maintenance worker and tonight he's under arrest.
1:03.0	More than 200 police officers are hunting for the six prisoners still roaming free.
1:10.0	Here's what we know about their escape.
1:12.2	It started after midnight, early Friday morning.
1:15.0	Investigators say 33-year-old Sterling Williams, a maintenance worker at the Orleans Parish
1:19.7	Prison, turned off the water to the cell.
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