NEW ORLEANS — A nonprofit organization that assists law enforcement investigations through surveillance camera systems says it assisted New Orleans police with the capture of at least two of the 10 inmates who escaped from a local prison last week.

Project N.O.L.A. operates around 5,000 cameras around the downtown district, including 200 that include facial recognition technology, the organization said. The camera system picked up footage of two of the escapees in the French Quarter hours after the jailbreak.

Bryan Lagarde, the executive director of Project N.O.L.A., told NewsNation that if the camera system’s facial recognition technology detects someone who is........

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