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Louisiana governor pledges to find escaped inmates, hold abettors accountable: We're going to hunt them down

Gov. Jeff Landry, R-La., opens up about law enforcement's work to find all the inmates that escaped from jail and pledges to hold abettors accountable on "America Reports."


Louisiana governor pledges to find escaped inmates, hold abettors accountable: We're going to hunt them down
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A manhunt has been underway since early Friday morning when surveillance footage shows ten inmates breaking out of their cells in New Orleans and making a run for freedom.  

"Not only those people who may have aided and abetted them to get out, but those who continue to aid and abet them, if we find them, if we find that you have aided and abetted these fugitives, you're going to jail as well," Landy warned on Monday. 

The governor told "America Reports" that authorities have been getting tips about the fugitives all day long and have reason to believe most of them are still in the city of New Orleans. Tips have also been sent to other jurisdictions outside the state where the inmates may also reside. 

"We've got men and women working around the clock," he said. "We're going to hunt these folks down. We're going to find them, and we're going bring them back to a jail that they can't break out of."  

"Several years ago, George Soros came over to New Orleans like Santa Claus and unpacked the district attorney, six judges, and a sheriff and this is what ... a progressive criminal justice system looks like .... This is what happens when those people promise that to keep criminals out of jail, sadly, you get 10 of the most dangerous inmates that are in jail in Louisiana, they get to escape." 

Fox News' Michael Dorgan and Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.  

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