The Louisiana Legislative Auditor officially launched a full financial audit of the Sheriff’s Office this week. The move comes just days after Sheriff Susan Hutson asked the New Orleans City Council ...

Former New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Ronal Serpas is criticizing what he described as New Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson's "checkered past" after 10 inmates escaped a parish jail ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Louisiana House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that would require immediate alerts of jail escapes to witnesses and nearby law enforcement, less than a week ...

As authorities scour New Orleans for escapees from a jailbreak, they're also confronting a history of mistrust in law enforcement and the criminal justice system.

New Orleans sheriff waited nearly a week to have the scene of a 10-man jailbreak processed for evidence by crime lab ...

Ten men who broke out of a New Orleans jail last week clogged a toilet to get the water shut off so that they could escape ...

A team of over 200 local, state and federal law enforcement officers and agents is working around the clock to capture the ...

New surveillance video shows escapees walking downtown hours after jailbreak; governor signs order; defense attorney claims jail worker is innocent ...

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

New Orleans jail worker, Sterling Williams, did not know about the men’s plan and did not allow the inmates to cut a pipe behind the toilet for their escape, attorney Michael Kennedy said.

A former New Orleans police chief criticized the "incompetence" of New Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson after a jailbreak.