Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said a jail maintenance worker told police he turned off the water in a cell after one ...

New Orleans man Stephen Badon received a 10-year federal prison sentence for child pornography possession and distribution, ...

Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson, who oversees the jail where 10 inmates escaped last week, announced Tuesday that she is ...

Officials increased the reward for the capture of the inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail as the manhunt entered a fifth day on Tuesday.

An inmate who allegedly threatened a maintenance worker into helping him and nine other men break out of a New Orleans jail ...

Authorities say one of the largest jailbreaks in modern New Orleans history may have hinged on a single maintenance worker.

Ten men escaped from a New Orleans jail on Friday and four have been apprehended, officials with the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office said.

An Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office facility employee is in custody accused of assisting in the escape of 10 inmates.

An employee of a New Orleans prison was arrested and charged on Monday for allegedly assisting in the escape of 10 inmates on Friday. Sterling Williams, 33, faces 10 counts of principle to simply ...

A maintenance employee at a New Orleans jail has been taken into custody for allegedly aiding in the escape of 10 inmates late last week, officials confirmed on Tuesday.  The arrest comes as the searc ...

A fifth inmate was recaptured following a breakout at a New Orleans jail last week, authorities announced, the same day a ...

Six of the 10 men who escaped from a New Orleans jail through a hole behind a toilet on Friday are still missing. Authorities ...