A lawyer for a worker charged with aiding the New Orleans jailbreak by 10 prisoners says the employee shut off water to unclog a toilet, not to allow the men to cut the pipe to open an escape route.

Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson, who oversees the jail where 10 inmates escaped last week, announced Tuesday that she is ...

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A fifth inmate was recaptured following a breakout at a New Orleans jail last week, authorities announced, the same day a ...

Nearly a week after 10 men escaped from a New Orleans jail by crawling through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a fence, ...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed an executive order Wednesday following the escape of 10 inmates from the Orleans Parish jail.

Sterling Williams' attorney said he was not threatened into helping the inmates escape and that he was simply the maintenance worker on duty the night of the plot.

The defense attorney for Sterling Williams, the Orleans Parish Jail maintenance worker accused of helping inmates escape last week, said Wednesday that his client is being wrongly blamed and is ...