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After the vote, Trust member Rev. Derrick Scobey said a lot of the problems at the jail are caused due to a lack of funding. "There's chronic underfunding to properly fund the jai ...
The authorities in Louisiana are searching for one of the 10 inmates who escaped from the Orleans Parish Justice Center on May 16. Here’s what we know.
A Minnesota jail carried out “torture” by denying an inmate water and food for more than 52 hours as he remained isolated in a contaminated cell, according to a lawsuit from the American Civil ...
7 escaped inmates still at large after 3-day manhunt in New Orleans, police say “Someone clearly dropped the ball and there’s no excuse for this,” Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said.
Quebec's public security minister says transgender inmates will be incarcerated according to their anatomical sex, not their ...
A week after 10 inmates at a New Orleans jail escaped through a hole in a wall behind a toilet, half of them are still on the run and at least four people have been charged with helping them.
More than 200 inmates escaped from a jail in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi late on Monday when they overpowered prison guards after being allowed to leave their cells following a series ...
Ten inmates escaped a New Orleans jail Friday, and only three escapees have been apprehended. Authorities say they're investigating the escape as a possible inside job.
A prison officer has undergone emergency surgery, the BBC has been told, after being airlifted to hospital with serious injuries sustained when he was stabbed by an inmate at a high-security prison.
After the recent New Orleans jail escape, records from show a pattern of unmanned tiers, faulty cell locks and inmates wandering without supervision. Problems have grown under Sheriff Susan Hutson ...
The new playing field: a $50 million jail expansion is under construction right behind the facility. The current jail can hold 291 inmates. As of Monday morning, the jail’s population was 581 ...