According to an affidavit, Williams allegedly shut off the water to a cell where the 10 inmates later escaped.

The Louisiana attorney general announced the arrest of a jail employee in connection with the escape of 10 New Orleans inmates.

Michael Kennedy is representing Sterling Williams after he was booked on 10 counts of principal to simple escape and one count of malfeasance in office. Sign up for our Newsletters Williams ...

The worker, Sterling Williams, did not know about the men’s plan and did not allow the inmates to cut a pipe behind the toilet to create an opening for their escape, attorney Michael Kennedy ...

Sterling Williams's close friends say aiding a prison escape is out of character for the former maintenance man. Sterling Williams, the man arrested for allegedly assisting ten New Orleans inmates ...

The worker, Sterling Williams, did not know about the men's plan and did not allow the inmates to cut a pipe behind the toilet to create an opening for their escape, attorney Michael Kennedy told ...

Last Friday, 10 men escaped from the Orleans Justice Centre after breaking through a hole behind a toilet, which had been shut off by the worker, Sterling Williams. Five men remain on the run in ...

Others arrested in connection with the prison escape include jail maintenance worker, Sterling Williams, Casey Smith, Connie Weeden, Cortnie Harris, and Corvanntay Baptiste. Weber, 28, Smith ...

Sterling Williams walked into pod 1-D of the Orleans Parish jail last Friday to fix a toilet, his attorney said. He was armed with a work order to repair it in a cell on the second tier ...