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.

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Nadya Tolokonnikova previews her stamina-testing performance in a mock prison cell at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Nadya Tolokonnikova previews her stamina-testing performance in ...

A mobile prison cell, complete with bunk beds and a metal toilet, is visiting primary schools to teach children about crime. The project, HMP Not-4-Me, was set up by former West Yorkshire Police ...

A corrections officer at the jail found Inzunza unresponsive in his cell. Like Romo's death, an initial investigation found no signs of trauma or suspicious circumstances. According to the Arizona ...

Newly released video shows the moment nearly a dozen inmates fled from a New Orleans jail in a brazen escape early Friday. Video cameras captured 10 inmates breaking out of a cell and running from ...

One of the escapees told Williams to cut the water to a specific jail cell, according to Murrill. Instead of alerting other jail workers, Williams cut the water, allowing the men to escape through ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Separate footage shows the moment all ten inmates bolt from their cell block. Another video then reveals the men exiting the prison premises, using blankets to scale a barbed wire fence.