Chances are "very high" that the inmates who broke out of jail in New Orleans will be recaptured, experts believe.

Ten men escaped from a New Orleans jail on Friday and four have been apprehended, officials with the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office said.

A shooting survivor criticizes system failures after learning about his attacker’s prison escape via a relative instead of ...

The manhunt for six men, including some accused of violent crimes, has alarmed the city and brought new attention to New Orleans’s troubled jail.

A West African man was wrongly detained for nearly two weeks in a Philadelphia jail because he shares a name with a man who had an open warrant against him, a new lawsuit says. Demba Gueye, a ...

Authorities have arrested an Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office employee in connection with the escape of 10 inmates.

Three days after a 10 men escaped a New Orleans jail by slipping through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall, seven of them remain on the run.

Hundreds of local, state and federal authorities are scrambling to find seven inmates who bolted out of a New Orleans jail Friday, sprinted across an interstate and vanished.

Of those seven, five are accused of the most serious crimes, one of them convicted. Mike McDaniel breaks down their criminal ...