"I'm not ready to indict the director over this," he said. In that time, Mendelson said, reports of violence and trouble have declined. But Mendelson noted that this escape is the first major breach since Brown took over as director of corrections this year. jail has a history of stabbings, gun smuggling and violence. jail and its 1,856 inmates remained in lockdown throughout the day, with visits and other activities suspended until further notice. If any staff is found culpable, he added, discipline will be "severe and prompt."
"This is not an easy task to accomplish," Brown said of the daring escape. He said that as more details of the escape emerge, he intends to hold hearings into what went wrong.ĭevon Brown, director of the Department of Corrections, said at a late-afternoon briefing - about six hours after the inmates escaped - that his department will review whether co-defendants Jones and Leaks were supposed to have been separated and whether other inmate protocols were followed. This was a weakness that they found and exploited." "This was not just an opportunity of the moment. "These guys clearly had thought through what they were doing," he said. Mendelson said the fact that the two wore blue jumpsuits shows they acted with premeditation. The blue jumpsuits are reserved only for prisoners about to be released. Almost all inmates wear the orange jumpsuits, officials said. Nor could they explain why the two were wearing blue jumpsuits, as the police reported, rather than distinctive bright orange attire. He chased them from a plaza up 19th Street SE, but the two split up and eluded him.Īt a briefing yesterday, Department of Corrections officials could not explain why the men were in that area, rather than the heavily secured inmate wing. corrections officer coming into work yesterday morning spotted the two inmates sliding down the canopy outside the warden's window. The two are also wanted in Greensboro, N.C., in connection with the shooting of a security guard in August.Ī D.C. Jones is charged with fatally shooting David Valentine on July 6. "Nobody should be able to get out of the jail. Council member Phil Mendelson (D-At Large), who chairs the Judiciary Committee, which oversees the D.C. "This is very, very troubling," said D.C. Police later stopped a man in a blue jumpsuit at the station, but released him.
The two rode it across the Anacostia River and got off at the Orange Line's Minnesota Avenue stop, police said. The buses were running every five minutes because the station was closed for track maintenance. The fugitives were last seen on a Metro shuttle bus near the Stadium-Armory station, D.C. Leaks, 32, of Northeast Washington, who also goes by the alias of "Joseph Poindexter," had been charged with nine counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and other charges, including illegal firearms possession and obstruction of justice on suspicion of attempting to get a witness to change her story.
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Jones, 25, of Hyattsville, had been awaiting trial on five counts of first-degree murder and illegal firearms possession. police, its K-9 squad, detectives and helicopters, and the U.S. They remained at large last night, despite a manhunt by the Joint Fugitive Task Force, which included the D.C. Yesterday, in the jail's most audacious breakout in recent memory, the two stormed into the warden's empty office shortly after 10 a.m., smashed through a reinforced glass window with furniture, scampered onto a canopy and escaped, officials said. jail since August, and last month were indicted in connection with a murder. Ricardo Jones and Joseph Leaks had been inmates in the D.C.
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