The Alabama Department of Corrections reports an inmate serving time for a robbery conviction was reported missing from a ...

Facing allegations of a conflict of interest, Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams removed himself this week from ...

The massive manhunt for 10 inmates who broke out of a New Orleans jail stretched into its 12th day May 28 as two remaining escapees continued to evade authorities. The inmates fled the Orleans ...

while city officials countered the lockup was most afflicted by incompetent management. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 wrought unspeakable havoc at the jail, as inmates found themselves stranded in ...

Autauga County Sheriff Mark Harrell filed a lawsuit Friday against the Autauga County Commission, alleging “negligent or willful refusal” by the panel to maintain the county jail. In the 20 ...

More than a decade before the recent New Orleans jailbreak, the city's lawless lockup went viral in a series of videos showing inmates chugging Budweiser, snorting drugs, gambling with handfuls of ...

A maintenance worker at a New Orleans jail has been arrested and accused of helping 10 inmates escape from the facility late last week, Louisiana's attorney general announced Tuesday. Sterling ...

NEW ORLEANS — Surveillance video captures the moment 10 inmates broke through a jail and ran towards the interstate early Friday morning. The Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office shared a timeline of ...