At the time of last month’s brazen jail escape, incarceration rates at the Orleans Parish lockup had climbed to nearly twice the national average, with a disproportionate share of Black detainees who are typically locked up longer, according to city data.

All 10 detainees who escaped the jail on May 16 are boaci. Five had been locked up between 350 and 860 days, well past the jail's average stay. Two of them -- Kendell Myles and Derrick Groves -- had been there for more than two years.

Black people make up 56% of Orleans Parish and more than 88% of the average daily population at the Orleans Justice Center in May, according to a report released Thursday by the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice Coordination. Their average stay is more than eight months, or about 260 days, the Orleans Pa

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