A lawyer for a worker charged with helping 10 men escape a New Orleans jail says the worker did not know about the jailbreak ...

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

Authorities say one of the largest jailbreaks in modern New Orleans history may have hinged on a single maintenance worker.

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

According to an arrest affidavit, maintenance worker Sterling Williams admitted to turning off water in a jail cell, which ...

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 ...

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.

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