As the manhunt for the remaining escaped New Orleans inmates continues, Sheriff Susan Hutson has been in the spotlight as local and state officials question how such a large jailbreak was possible and some call for her resignation.

Embattled Orleans Parish Susan Hutson announced Tuesday evening (May 20) that she is “temporarily” suspending her campaign for re-election this fall. Hutson has come under withering criticism in the wake of the May 16 escape of 10 inmates from the Orleans Justice Center jail she has supervised since May 2022.

WDSU investigator Aubry Killion spoke with Hutson as she walked into City Hall for a hearing with the New Orleans City Council.

Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson, who oversees the jail from which 10 inmates escaped, spurring a five-day manhunt, apologized for the first time Tuesday as she faced calls to resign.

Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson blamed "intentional wrongdoings" from her staff in facilitating last week's escape of 10 inmates. Why it matters: It confirms her earlier statements of the jailbreak potentially being an inside job.

"It's embarrassing to me that she has one job, which is to keep the inmates in the jail and keep the rest of us safe," Freeman told NewsNation.

Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson and her top jail deputy provided new details Friday afternoon on a mass escape from the city lockup, saying that nine inmates remain on the

Orleans Parish jail employee arrested after 10 inmates escaped through a wall; six remain at large as investigation intensifies.