Sheriff Gerald Sticker says the new $250,000 X-ray scanner is part of a security overhaul in his first year on the job.

With time and trust in short supply, county social workers such as Schachtele have to get creative and do much of their work outside the jail walls. In many cases, ...

A maintenance worker at the Orleans Parish jail says he helped 10 inmates escape after being threatened by one of them, according to an arrest warrant. As authorities race to capture the remaining ...

Since the Sanpete County Sheriff's Office hired Swapp last year, recidivism has dropped sharply. In the 18 months before she began her work, 599 of the people booked into Sanpete County Jail had ...

A jail maintenance worker accused of helping inmates escape the Orleans Parish Jail in May was expected to be in court on Tuesday, June 17.

Deputies with the U.S. Marshals Service arrested Darriana Burton, 28, in New Orleans on June 9, prosecutors announced.

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.

Jail employee arrested in connection with New Orleans inmate escape. A maintenance worker is accused of turning off the water in a cell, allowing 10 inmates to escape, the Louisiana attorney ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans jail maintenance worker has been arrested after admitting he turned water off to a toilet covering a hole in a cell wall, allowing 10 men to squeeze through the ...

New Orleans jailbreak: Sheriff’s office worker arrested Five of the 10 men who escaped from a New Orleans jail through a hole behind a toilet on Friday are still missing. Authorities believe ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans jail maintenance worker has been arrested and is being held on a $1.1 million bond after admitting he turned water off to a toilet covering a hole in a cell wall ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 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 through a hole behind it, a lawyer for a maintenance ...