The rumors were made worse when the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office sent a release heralding the supposed takeover ...

A jail plumber pleaded not guilty Thursday after being accused of turning off the water to help 10 detainees flee the New ...

Nine of the 10 men accused of breaking out of a New Orleans jail in May after slipping through a hole behind a toilet and ...

A New Orleans man has been arrested and faces drug charges following an investigation that occurred in St. Bernard Parish.

The Orleans Parish jail has been taken over by the federal government. On Wednesday afternoon federal agents were seen ...

Councilmembers Helena Moreno and Oliver Thomas, along with former Criminal District Court Judge Arthur Hunter, arrived the ...

Officials said scammers are impersonating OPSO staff, pressuring people to send money over the phone to secure an inmate's ...

A man has been arrested after he allegedly injured a New Orleans police officer and an Orleans Parish sheriff's deputy in a ...

Judge Flemings-Davillier accused Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson of contempt for not transporting inmates on weekends, ...

The sheriff's office said the scammers are calling families and asking them to send money to secure their loved ones' release ...

Antoine Massey, a serial escapee who vanished from a New Orleans jail with nine other inmates just after midnight on May 16, ...

A Louisiana law that creates criminal penalties for local law enforcement officers who do not fully cooperate with federal ...