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

The 10 inmates who broke out of a New Orleans jail in a stunning overnight escape last week used electric hair trimmers with ...

As the fugitive search enters a second week, fears are increasingly giving way to frustration, anger and a desire for ...

Sterling Williams walked into pod 1-D of the Orleans Parish jail last Friday to fix a toilet, his attorney said.

When 10 inmates busted out of the Orleans Justice Center last week, the world was shocked. New Orleanians? Not so much. For ...

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

An Orleans Justice Center inmate, who was not one of the 10 to escape last week, is facing new charges and accused of helping ...

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

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

Investigators in New Orleans are tracking dozens of leads in the search for five missing escaped inmates. Police have ...

A maintenance worker at a New Orleans jail where 10 inmates escaped has been arrested and accused of helping facilitate the ...

Casey Smith, 30, was arrested on Thursday for allegedly assisting two of the 10 inmates who escaped from the Orleans Justice Center on May 16, police said.