Black people, who make up 56% of the Orleans Parish population, accounted for 88% of the daily population at the Orleans ...

See how prisoners escaped from Orleans Parish Prison, where 5 of 10 the inmates were caught, and the charges against those ...

Ten inmates who broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday had prepared for their escape, and possibly had help, officials said.

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

Ten inmates escaped a New Orleans jail Friday, and only three escapees have been apprehended. Authorities say they're ...

The New Orleans jail where 10 inmates escaped from earlier this month is experiencing “significant flooding” from what a ...

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

A former jail employee is accused of driving escapee Lenton Vanburen to a relative's home and helping him FaceTime family the ...

When 10 inmates busted out of the Orleans Justice Center last week, the world was shocked. New Orleanians? Not so much. For those who live in the Louisiana city, the jail—and its accompanying ...

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

Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams scorched Sheriff Susan Hutson for failing to order an investigation into the ...

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