Nearly a decade ago, New Orleans officials hailed their new jail as a harbinger of change.

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A New Orleans jail maintenance worker has been arrested and is being held on a $1.1 million bond after admitting he turned ...

The sheriff who oversees the New Orleans jail where 10 men escaped last week says defective locks were a key factor in the ...

but was later determined to have been relocated to another cell without the proper update in facility records. Hutson said the escape was the result of ongoing deficiencies in the jail’s aging ...

but almost impossible for anybody to get out of this facility without help,” she said of the jail, where 1,400 people are being held. The escapees yanked open a door to enter the cell with the ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall while the lone guard assigned to ...

The inmates, including several locked up on murder raps, broke out of the Orleans Parish Jail early Friday in an audacious overnight escape as the lone guard assigned to their cell pod was away ...

Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall while the lone guard assigned to their cell pod was ...