Nearly a decade ago, New Orleans officials hailed their new jail as a harbinger of change.

On May 27, Williams put in an official request with state Attorney General Liz Murrill to take up the probe of the "operational failures" that led to the jailbreak. The investigation is still being ...

The authorities in Louisiana are searching for two of the 10 inmates who escaped from the Orleans Parish Justice Center on ...

The recent escape of 10 individuals from the New Orleans Correctional Center has quickly shifted from a public-safety crisis ...

Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office, the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office, and the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office are all among the agencies being asked to comply. “There has to be transparency ...

After the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office acknowledged water leaks and shut-off s at the jail over Memorial Day weekend, the ...

It was just after midnight when ten inmates escaped from the Orleans Parish Jail. The breakout was bold, dangerous—and disturbingly simple. Authorities say they broke a toilet fixture, entered a ...

According to a former warden, the New Orleans jail from which serial escapee Antoine Massey and nine others escaped was a ...

The audacious feat, one of the biggest jailbreaks in Louisiana history, exploited safety issues in the jail that had ...

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

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