A maintenance worker at the New Orleans jail where nearly a dozen prisoners escaped last week has been arrested and charged with facilitating their breakout, ABC News reported.

Ten inmates escaped from Orleans Parish Justice Center around 1 a.m. last Friday, which wasn’t discovered until about 8:30 a.m. that morning. Three were arrested within 24 hours of escaping, while another escapee was arrested on Monday.

Sterling Williams, 33, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with malfeasance in office and 10 counts of principal to simple escape, one for each escaped inmate.

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