NEW ORLEANS — A manhunt is underway for 10 inmates who escaped from the Orleans Justice Center, and Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson said the breakout highlights the urgent need for funding ...

A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty two years after trying to open the emergency door of a Boston-bound flight ... carries a sentence of up to life in prison, up to five years of supervised ...

Wild video shows the moment 10 violent inmates were spotted sprinting away from a New Orleans jail under the cover ... prying open one of the cell doors before they all managed to squeeze through ...

A man from Watford who smashed and damaged windows and doors has been handed a jail sentence. Ben Kempster, of no fixed abode, appeared at Hatfield Magistrates' Court on Wednesday (May 14), having ...

a prison officer went to his cell to give him paperwork for a disciplinary hearing. Ombudsman Kimberley Bingham wrote: "[The officer] told us that he looked through the cell door observation panel ...

A 25-year-old inmate was discovered dead in his cell at HMP Parc prison, Bridgend, just 45 minutes after a disciplinary notice was slid under his door, according to a report by the Prisons and ...

Other inmates described this women's prison in Derbyshire as a "holiday camp", even "rehab". There was no one homogenous view, but there is also not one type of prisoner here - it is home to both ...

in one of the largest prison breaks in recent US history. Six criminals remain at large. The group yanked open a broken cell door, moved the toilet and slithered through the hole in the daring ...

Sheriff Hutson has said the escapes highlighted the need for more funding to fix jail infrastructure, including the sliding cell doors, an issue she said she had raised in the past. The facility needs ...