Sterling Williams' attorney said he was not threatened into helping the inmates escape and that he was simply the maintenance worker on duty the night of the plot.

A maintenance worker was arrested for aiding in the escape of nearly a dozen inmates from a jail in New Orleans.

Meanwhile, an inmate threatened to stab the employee with a "shank," a homemade knife, according to the employee's statement in an arrest affidavit.

Ten men who broke out of a New Orleans jail last week clogged a toilet to get the water shut off so that they could escape through a hole behind it, a lawyer for a maintenance worker who is charged with helping them said Wednesday.