According to JPSO, around 4 a.m., a deputy was conducting security checks and saw that the inmate in the Intake booking area appeared to be unresponsive.

NEW ORLEANS -- A Louisiana man who spent nearly three decades on death row has been released on bail Wednesday after his ...

After 30 years on death row, Angola inmate Jimmie Duncan was granted bail by a district judge. Today, Wednesday, November 26, ...

According to documents filed with the United States Department of Justice, 45-year-old Jesus Lopez, 24-year-old Zaira Lopez-Oliva and 30-year-old Kirsis Castellanos-Kirington, were indicted on charges ...

A New Orleans man who spent three decades in prison before his murder conviction was vacated won election to serve as the ...

Calvin Duncan was cleared of murder after he became a legal authority in prison. In New Orleans, his campaign for clerk of criminal court has struck a nerve. Calvin Duncan at home in New Orleans in ...

To hear Antoine Massey tell it, his notoriety as a jail escape artist made him an ideal candidate to become a political pawn. Massey, who authorities consider a ringleader in the brazen escape of 10 ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The trial for recaptured escapee Antoine Massey will begin more than a month later than originally planned. The proceedings were scheduled to start Monday, October 20, but after ...

In May, 10 inmates escaped from a jail in New Orleans, highlighting the facility’s chronic problems. Derrick Groves was at large for months. By Rick Rojas Reporting from New Orleans On May 16, just ...

Convicted murderer Derrick Groves pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a charge of felony simple escape following his infamous break from the New Orleans jail in May and five months on the run, according ...

New Orleans jail escapee Derrick Groves, who spent nearly five months on the run before being captured in Georgia, agreed to be returned to Louisiana in a Thursday court appearance. “I want to return ...

ATLANTA (AP) -- A monthslong search for the only Louisiana inmate still on the run after an audacious May jailbreak ended Wednesday when authorities say they found him hiding in a crawl space beneath ...