New Orleans — The sheriff who oversees a New Orleans jail that was the site of a brash escape of 10 inmates earlier this year told CBS News in an exclusive interview Thursday that prison staffing and design flaws played a major role in the breakout.

Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson said the Orleans Parish Justice Center jail, built 10 years ago, was poorly constructed from the start.

"There are major design flaws in it that make it unsafe for those who are housed here and make it unsafe for those who work here," Hutson told CBS News. "And I included the locks and other mechanisms that I don't want to talk about on camera that are safety issues. But we talked about this, and we alerted everybody in the system."

The May 16 escape prompted an extensive manhunt involving hundreds

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