NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - State representative Aimee Adatto Freeman, a Democrat from New Orleans, on Monday (May 19) called for Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson to resign.

The security breach happened on the first floor of the jail, where cells have sliding doors that “are able to be manipulated ...

Judge Africk is overseeing a long-standing consent decree mandating sweeping reforms at the Orleans Justice Center.

"Leadership matters, and right now, the people of New Orleans deserve better. Sheriff Hutson should resign," Freeman said in ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Just days before 10 men broke out of a New Orleans jail, officials with the sheriff’s office asked ...

Two of the 10 inmates who recently escaped from a New Orleans jail have reportedly been seen on surveillance video walking ...

Officials blame faulty locks and poor oversight for the escape of 10 inmates from a New Orleans jail, with 7 still on the run ...

Three days after a 10 men escaped a New Orleans jail by slipping through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall, seven of them remain on the run Monday, and up to $20,000 in rewards was being ...

In her statement, Freeman says "if Hutson needed additional resources to ensure security, she could have simply asked--blaming funding is a deflection-not an excuse." ...