Sterling Williams was arrested Tuesday in connection with Friday’s jailbreak. His lawyer, Michael Kennedy, told The ...

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

A New Orleans jail maintenance worker has been arrested after admitting he turned water off to a toilet covering a hole in a ...

Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson last week told reporters her agency had suspended three employees pending an ...

Meanwhile, an inmate threatened to stab the employee with a "shank," a homemade knife, according to the employee's statement ...

A lawyer for the maintenance worker accused of aiding 10 inmates escape a New Orleans jail said they rooked him into helping ...

Sterling Williams, the 33-year-old maintenance worker who was jailed after ten prisoners escaped from a jail in New Orleans, ...

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 worker who is ...

Sterling Williams' attorney said he was not threatened into helping the inmates escape and that he was simply the maintenance worker on duty the night of the plot.

DA staff, victims say they’re in hiding. City leaders demand answers as fallout grows.

The defense attorney for Sterling Williams, the Orleans Parish Jail maintenance worker accused of helping inmates escape last week, said Wednesday that his client is being wrongly blamed and is ...