POSTED: 3:17 pm CDT July 25, 2004
UPDATED: 3:34 pm CDT July 25, 2004

BATON ROUGE, La. -- An inmate who escaped from the East Baton Rouge Parish prison remained at large Sunday.

Authorities said 21-year-old Willie Francois had been assigned to work as a kitchen trustee, and escaped Saturday afternoon.

Francois, who goes by the name Jessie, was booked into jail last month with unauthorized use of a vehicle, switching license plates, and resisting an officer.


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