New Orleans — The sheriff who oversees a New Orleans jail that was the site of a brash escape of 10 inmates earlier this year told CBS News in an exclusive interview Thursday that prison staffing and ...

NEW ORLEANS — Sheriff Susan Hutson has been held in contempt of court by the judges of the criminal court for failing to provide deputies to staff last Saturday's magistrate court. The issue dates ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson has a plan to get inmates to court on weekends and holidays. The plan was made in order to comply with a judge’s order, after the judge held ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson took the opportunity at a public campaign forum Tuesday (July 29) to suggest the May 16 jailbreak by 10 inmates at the facility she oversees ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - State Rep. Mandie Landry (D-New Orleans) in June helped successfully pass a law that requires immediate notification of jail escapes in Louisiana. A month later, she says it looks ...

Orleans Sheriff Susan Hutson warned layoffs and furloughs will be “unavoidable” after $13 million budget cut for 2026.

NEW ORLEANS — While a New Orleans jail inmate mistakenly released by the Sheriff's Office on Friday remains at large, WWL Louisiana has learned from multiple sources that the sequence of events that ...

NEW ORLEANS — New details about the mistaken release of an Orleans Justice Center inmate Friday were revealed this week. The increasingly clear timeline of that day is emerging just as Sheriff Susan ...

AN APPEALS COURT HAS JUST SUSPENDED SENTENCING FOR SHERIFF SUSAN HUTSON. THAT’S IN A CONTEMPT CASE. SO HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW. SHE WAS HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT FOR FAILING TO APPARENTLY PROVIDE DEPUTIES ...

Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson is in the midst of fresh controversy after her office mistakenly released the wrong detainee from the parish jail in what she ...

An inmate was mistakenly released from a New Orleans jail, sparking an ongoing manhunt, authorities said Friday. Khalil Bryan, 30, was released from the Orleans Justice Center on Friday due to a ...