Six Louisiana inmates, housed in Morehouse Parish Prison since Hurricane Katrina, escaped early Monday but police apprehended two of them Tuesday after they led Tennessee authorities on a chase and one staged a standoff at a strip mall, police said. A third inmate turned himself in to Jefferson Parish authorities and the other three, plus one man believed to be from Orleans Parish Prison, remained at large, authorities said.

Terrance Williams, 18, and Joseph Oakes, 27, were arrested Tuesday in Crossville, Tenn., but police suspect they are responsible for a carjacking and home invasion in Mississippi on Monday. Michael Robinson, 19, surrendered Monday afternoon at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Facility in Gretna, authorities said.

The men probably had one or more accomplices from the New Orleans area helping them in their escape, said Mike Tubbs, chief criminal deputy of the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office in Bastrop. Their escape happened Monday about 4 a.m., Tubbs said. The men climbed out of a dorm room through the building's ventilation system onto the jail's roof and through a heavy-gauge steel fence that had been cut, he said.

Once free, they stole a church van and drove to Jackson, Miss., where they split up, Tubbs said. "Two went north, and the other five headed south," he said. Authorities are still searching for the other escaped inmates.