Speaking in a news conference, Hutson revealed the group had each pulled the sliding doors from their cells of their track at 23 minutes past midnight, before tearing a toilet from the wall.

Cryptocurrency trading and betting platform Polymarket began taking bets on Tuesday over which escaped New Orleans convicts would be captured by Friday.

Six inmates are on the lam after escaping a New Orleans jail. Some of those closest to the crimes are on edge, but other residents are unafraid.