Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson faced a new round of criticism Thursday over last week's brazen jailbreak and her response, this time from District Attorney Jason Williams, as the manhunt ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WVUE) - In a nearly four-hour, and at times contentious, Louisiana Senate judiciary hearing, Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams faced allegations his office violated ...

The sheriff in charge of the jail where 10 inmates escaped two weeks ago went to court on Thursday seeking to remove the local district attorney from the probe into the massive security breach ...

NEW ORLEANS — Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson said her office is fully cooperating with the Attorney General's investigation into the May 16 jail escape — and pushed back on claims that ...

NEW ORLEANS − Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams stood at the windows of his office looking toward the nearby jail, where the brazen May 16 jailbreak has rattled his office like ...

New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams countered Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry at a news conference, saying his prosecutors were personally afraid for their safety after the jailbreak.

To help solve crimes, New Orleans police have “secured the cooperation of victims and witnesses to make 1,411 violent felony arrests between Jan. 11, 2021 [when Williams took office] to Sept. 10 ...

Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office/Handout via Reuters At about 1:19 a.m., the inmates were seen climbing a fence separating the jail from the construction site, according to the sheriff's office.

During a Senate Criminal Justice Committee hearing, ... DA Stewart said in his opinion that the state is trying to legislate a chronic issue in New Orleans through an unnecessary statewide measure.

The 10 men who escaped from a New Orleans jail more than two weeks ago by cutting out a hole behind a toilet received help from at least 15 people, many of them friends and family who provided ...

FBI ups reward to $10K per fugitive as search intensifies for 7 inmates who escaped a New Orleans jail through a hole behind a toilet. ... He said everyone in the criminal justice system needs to be ...

She pledged to “reduce overincarceration” and remedy “racial inequities inherent in our criminal justice system.” It’s a soft-on-crime ideology worthy of a run for public defender, not DA.