NEW ORLEANS — Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury on Wednesday on 30 counts over her office's role in the escape of 10 inmates from the Orleans Parish Justice Center. The indictment charges her with malfeasance, obstruction of justice, and falsifying public records.

Bianka Brown, the chief financial officer of the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office, was indicted on 20 similar charges. Hutson and Brown turned themselves in at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center and were released on bond. Bond for Hutson was set at $300,000, and she was ordered to turn in her passport and not leave the state, according to court records. Court records did not list a personal attorney for Hutson.

"While Sheriff Hutson did not personally open the doors of the jail for the escapees, her refusal to comply with basic legal requirements and to take even minimal precautions in the discharge of her duties directly contributed to and enabled the escape," Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said in a statement. A state investigation found that Hutson's poor management of the jail led to the inmates' escape.

The escapees crawled through a hole behind a toilet, scaled a barbed wire fence, and left behind graffiti reading "To Easy LoL." The jail did not realize the inmates were missing for more than seven hours. The escape prompted a manhunt involving hundreds of officers from federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, and all of the escapees were eventually recaptured after a months-long search.

Hutson initially blamed political opponents for the jailbreak without providing evidence, and later said faulty door locks enabled the escape and that she had been seeking funding to improve the jail's infrastructure. "Understaffing and major design flaws at the jail played a significant part in the inmates' escape," she said last August. "These flaws at the Orleans Parish Justice Center make it unsafe for those who are housed here and make it unsafe for those who work here," she said.

Hutson lost her reelection campaign and is set to leave office on Monday. In a farewell address Tuesday, she addressed the escape. "We responded with professionalism, urgency and resilience, and we came out stronger because of it," she said.

The Orleans Parish jail system experienced violence, corruption, and operational issues for decades and was placed under federal oversight in 2013. Tens of millions of dollars were invested in the system, and a new facility opened in 2015. In the two years leading up to the jailbreak, federally appointed monitors warned of the jail's inadequate staffing, lax supervision, and an increasing number of "internal escapes."