Report: Escapees helped by ‘corrupted,’ ‘negligent’ staff

Two dangerous inmates were able to walk out of the D.C. Jail and into the posh Hill East neighborhood thanks to a “corrupted staff and the negligence of correctional employees,” a blistering internal review found.

“The June 3, 2006 escapes of Joseph Leaks and Ricardo Jones were neither opportunistic nor spontaneous,” internal investigators at the jail write in the report, “but rather the outgrowth of a calculated, deliberate plan, arranged and orchestrated.”