The Louisiana attorney general announced the arrest of a jail employee in connection with the escape of 10 New Orleans ...

Sterling Williams walked into pod 1-D of the Orleans Parish jail last Friday to fix a toilet, his attorney said.

A maintenance worker at a New Orleans jail where 10 inmates escaped has been arrested and accused of helping facilitate the ...

A retired FBI expert says the New Orleans jail escape exposes critical staffing shortage and other issues after 10 inmates ...

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 ...

Sterling Williams, a 33-year-old maintenance worker at Orleans Parish Jail, has been arrested in connection with the escape ...

Breaking news update, published at 2:01 p.m. ET] Five suspected accomplices have been arrested for allegedly helping some of ...

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.

The 10 inmates who broke out of a New Orleans jail in a stunning overnight escape last week used electric hair trimmers with ...

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