The officials in New Orleans are asking an inmate to be delivered after an administrative error led him to be released by error of the same prison where 10 men escaped earlier this year.
Khalil Bryan was released by mistake from the Justice Center of the Parish of Orleans by the Sheriff’s office, said a New Orleans police superintendent, Anne Kirkpatrick, at a press conference on Friday.
Also at Friday’s press conference, the Sheriff of the Parish of Orleans, Susan Hutson, made “a sincere apology to the people of New Orleans” and assumed “full responsibility” for Bryan’s wrong launch.
Bryan was released after an administrative error caused the officials to confuse him with another inmate with a similar surname, Hutson explained.
“While our systems are designed to detect these discrepancies, human error led to a breakdown in the verification process,” said Huts.
Officials in the area have launched an investigation and are actively looking for Bryan. Hutson said that those who were service during Bryan’s release will be called to question it, since this was a human error.
Bryan is fulfilling time for charges that include possession of stolen property, possession of drug paraphernalia and resistance to an officer, said Kirkpatrick, pointing out the “violent criminal history” of the inmate.
Hutson then added that he was accused of invasion of the house, aggravated assault and domestic abuse.
Bryan, 30, is a 4 -foot 4 -inch black man with brown eyes and black hair, according to a flying flyer released by the Sheriff’s office.
Bryan’s accidental release occurs only a few months after 10 inmates escaped from the same prison in the middle of the night through a hole in the wall behind a cell bath.
New Orleans officials took more than a month to gather nine of men, and one more remaining in general.
Kirkpatrick said that they may be in front of charges similar to recaptured escapes, and that it has realized that it is a fugitive, but the charges will finally depend on the district prosecutor’s office.
On Friday, he asked Bryan to be delivered.
“This should not have happened. It was a failure of internal processes, and the public has every right to wait better,” said Hutson.
He later added that “this is nothing we want for our community.”
“We want our community to know that we will do it well. We will guard it again, and we will do it well, and there will be responsibility for these actions,” said Hutson.
