As North Carolina officials look to reduce their use of solitary confinement, several mentally ill inmates have killed ...

Antoine Massey and Derrick Groves — who escaped from a New Orleans jail​​ nearly two weeks ago may be in other cities, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Only two of the 10 New Orleans jail escapees remain on the run Tuesday after police captured two men ...

A New York City drug dealer who admitted providing the fentanyl-laced heroin that a killed prominent transgender activist has ...

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

The Marshall Project highlights a new report that sheds light on pregnant people behind bars, but misses their lived ...

In the seven years since Jeffrey Epstein — the notorious and well-connected convicted child sex offender — was found dead in ...

The recent escapes follow several other high-profile breakouts, like that of Danilo Cavalcante, a convicted murderer who ...

"You completely lose your agency in there. When inmates leave, they don't know how to run their own lives." View Entire Post ...

The failure to investigate the Orleans Parish Correctional Facility as a crime scene by Sheriff Susan Hutson could harm prosecutors in the case, an ex-FBI agent says.

Authorities are turning their attention toward people who helped inmates who literally broke out of a New Orleans jail 11 ...