Lester Duhé, spokesperson for the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office, confirmed to USA TODAY that the nine men pleaded not guilty to escape charges.

Sterling Williams, a New Orleans jail plumber​ accused of helping 10 inmates break out​ of an Orleans Parish correctional facility in May, pleaded not guilty Thursday.

Several inmates appeared to have tampered with their prison cell doors to free themselves from their cells moments before ...

Khalil Bryan was released after a clerical error caused officials to confuse him with another inmate with a similar last name ...

The error comes as the jail and the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office are still reeling from the escape of 10 inmates in the ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Seven Newport News inmates are back in their cells after a group attempted to escape jail and caused a riot, according to officials. None of the seven managed to get outside ...

Nine men accused of breaking out of a New Orleans city jail in May after slipping through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a barbed wire fence pleaded not guilty to escape charges on Wednesday.

Authorities say that the men broke out of the jail after yanking open a locked door to access a cell, where the water had been turned off, removing a toilet and squeezing through a hole in a wall ...