Sources: Guard left uniforms for escapees

Two escapees walked out of the D.C. Jail’s main gates June 3 wearing correctional officers’ uniforms hidden for them by a jail guard, key sources told The Examiner.

Joseph Leaks and Ricardo Jones, awaiting trial in a fatal shooting last summer, broke out of the jail when they smashed a window in the warden’s office with an 80-pound floor buffer. Authorities initially said that the escapees were probably wearing the dark blue jumpsuits commonly given to inmates upon their release.