A lawyer for a worker charged with helping 10 men escape a New Orleans jail says the worker did not know about the jailbreak plan.

Days after 10 men escaped from a New Orleans jail by crawling through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall, five still remain at large and while an investigation continues, residents across New O...

While state and local investigators continue to probe how the escape occurred, the incident has led Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson to suspend her re-election campaign, according to a May 20 soci...