On Monday, Sterling Williams, a 33-year-old maintenance worker at the jail, was arrested on charges that he shut off water to ...

Three Orleans Parish jail inmates staged an unsuccessful escape attempt through the ceiling of pod 1D roughly two weeks ...

The recent jailbreak in New Orleans followed decades of dysfunction in the city's jail system and recent warnings that ...

A fourth person in Louisiana has been arrested and charged with helping the inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail last ...

Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson sent a campaign email praising security improvements just days before 10 inmates escaped ...

Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams scorched Sheriff Susan Hutson for failing to order an investigation into the ...

Authorities search for men who fled through broken window at Franklin County residential prison diversion program.

A 59-year-old Slidell woman has been arrested for allegedly assisting one of the five at-large escapees from the Orleans ...

Nearly 25 years ago, seven inmates broke free from a maximum-security prison in South Texas. A weeks-long manhunt ensued, ...

Last week, 10 inmates escaped a New Orleans prison. Five escapees have been recaptured, while five remain at large and are ...

Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson boasted about jail upgrades in a campaign video just days before 10 inmates escaped.