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 ...

Days after 10 men escaped from a New Orleans jail by crawling through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall, five have ...

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 ...

Louisiana State Police said Wednesday they have arrested two women, Cortnie Harris and Corvanntay Baptiste, for their roles in helping the inmates who broke free in the early morning of May 16. Harris ...

Louisiana State Police announced the arrests of Cortnie Harris, 32, and Corvanntay Baptiste, 38, in a Wednesday news release.

Harris is accused of transporting two fugitives to multiple locations in New Orleans, both of whom are still at large.