Voters don’t want more rhetoric. They want results:  safer streets, healthier families, and a justice system that works for ...

State Sen. Royce Duplessis, D-New Orleans, right, sponsored Senate Bill 218, which would allow prisoners convicted by ...

On This Week in Louisiana Politics, Gov. Jeff Landry signs an executive order for jail safety, the Department of Justice closes an investigation into the state police, a report analyzes the state's ...

The audacious feat, one of the biggest jailbreaks in Louisiana history, exploited safety issues in the jail that had ...

Five years ago, the world watched the murder of George Floyd for over nine excruciating minutes. In the weeks and months that ...

The charges range from accessory after the fact to principal to simple escape. Investigators said the group aided the escapees in various ways.

Casey Smith, 30, was arrested on Thursday for allegedly assisting two of the 10 inmates who escaped from the Orleans Justice Center on May 16, police said.

As the fugitive search enters a second week, fears are increasingly giving way to frustration, anger and a desire for accountability.

Ten inmates escaped the Orleans Parish Justice Center in one of the biggest jailbreaks in Louisiana history, enabled by failures that had previously been cited by authorities.

The 10 inmates who broke out of a New Orleans jail in a stunning overnight escape last week used electric hair trimmers with ...

Nearly a week after 10 inmates opened a faulty cell door inside a city jail and moved the toilet to squeeze through a hole, ...

The Washington Post investigation published this week reported that New Orleans police were using Project N.O.L.A.'s network ...