India, May 21 -- Sterling Williams, the 33-year-old maintenance worker who was jailed after ten prisoners escaped from a jail in New Orleans, revealed why he assisted them.

A member of the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office was taken into custody and accused of ten counts of simple escape and official misconduct. The arrest warrant affidavit states that Williams "willfully and maliciously" enabled a daring escape of the prisoners.

Williams is reportedly a maintenance employee who shut off the water in the cell from where the prisoners escaped.

He claims Antoine Massey, one of the prisoners, threatened to harm him with a "shank" - a make shift knife - if he did not help, as per court documents.

According to Louisiana State Police, four ou...