Four inmates escaped a south Louisiana jail over the weekend and two were still missing Tuesday, authorities said.

Authorities were unaware that four inmates had escaped until a phone call tipped them off, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office said Monday.

The inmates escaped in pairs — the first on Saturday afternoon and the second on Sunday, said Deputy Chief Jimmy Travis at a news conference, WVUE-TV reported. Travis said all four broke through a corroded piece of chain-link fence, crawled under an 8-inch (20-centimeter) gap in a wall, and scaled two razor-wire fences.

Jail authorities learned of two of the escapes Sunday afternoon when a tipster reported seeing two of the inmates at a relative’s house looking for a place to stay.

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        We could start with the racism. Let’s start with the fact that there’s a beloved monument to Confederate generals on the side of a cliff within view of many black Atlanta residents…

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          Do you find any irony in using people that use racist stereotypes to justify their own racism to justify your own regional stereotypes?

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            Sorry… you’re claiming that when I say that Southerners sometimes live up to their stereotypes is the same thing as racism?

            I mean I gave an example. Or are you going to claim that Stone Mountain, pride of Georgia, is not a big racist symbol that everyone has to look at all the time?