As authorities scour New Orleans for escapees from an audacious jailbreak, they are also confronting entrenched mistrust in law enforcement and the criminal justice system.

The Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office is now the focus of a multi-agency investigation — as questions mount over how millions of tax dollars are being spent and whether the public is getting a return on ...

Former New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Ronal Serpas is criticizing what he described as New Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson's "checkered past" after 10 inmates escaped a parish jail ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Louisiana House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that would require immediate alerts of jail escapes to witnesses and nearby law enforcement, less than a week ...

Two women accused of assisting Orleans Justice Center jail escapees this week have been arrested, wereLouisiana State Police ...

New Orleans sheriff waited nearly a week to have the scene of a 10-man jailbreak processed for evidence by crime lab ...

Ten men who broke out of a New Orleans jail last week clogged a toilet to get the water shut off so that they could escape ...

Louisiana State Police, who have yet to find half of the Orleans Parish Prison escapees, announced the arrest of two women on ...

A team of over 200 local, state and federal law enforcement officers and agents is working around the clock to capture the ...

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

New Orleans jail worker, Sterling Williams, did not know about the men’s plan and did not allow the inmates to cut a pipe behind the toilet for their escape, attorney Michael Kennedy said.