S4|E35: The New Orleans Prison Break

Gone South

Audacy Podcasts

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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10 inmates escape from Orleans Parish Prison, located in the heart New Orleans. At the time this episode was released, two are still at large, and one has taken to social media to plead his innocence. Find us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter. You can also subscribe to our newsletter, Gone South with Jed Lipinski. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's be honest, you've been portrayed as a monster.
0:03.6	Yes.
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0:05.6	Maniacal.
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0:55.2	On the morning of May 16th of this year, New Orleans journalist Mike Perlstein learned that an undetermined number of inmates had escaped from the local jail.
1:13.6	It was earlier this morning around 8.30 a.m. local time that these missing inmates were discovered.
1:18.6	This was during a routine headcount. And it wasn't immediately clear how many were...
1:23.6	They started my day, my office that is, by sending me to the jail just to find out what was going on,
1:31.6	what was behind this alert of some kind of escape.
1:35.5	But we were all in the dark at that point.
1:38.7	Mike is an investigative reporter for WWL Louisiana, the CBS local news affiliate in New Orleans.
1:46.0	He's been covering the city's criminal justice system for over 30 years,
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