Khalil Bryan, 30, was released from the Orleans Justice Center on July 25 due to "human error," according to Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson. The release stemmed from a case of mistaken identity ...

Sterling Williams, a New Orleans jail plumber accused of helping 10 inmates break out of an Orleans Parish correctional facility in May, pleaded not guilty Thursday.

Two Virginia inmates are back in custody after they allegedly escaped from jail by tunneling through a cell wall, authorities said.

Roughly two months after 10 inmates escaped from a New Orleans jail, a "human error" resulted in the release of another inmate by mistake. On Friday, July 25, New Orleans Police Department ...

Three inmates escaped the Barry County Jail in Missouri by carving holes into the ceiling of their cells and climbed out, the U.S. Marshals said.

Nine men accused of breaking out of a New Orleans city jail in May after slipping through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a barbed wire fence pleaded not guilty to escape charges on Wednesday.

Authorities are searching for a man who used a rope made of bedsheets to escape from the 12th floor of an Oklahoma jail.

A plot to bomb open an escape route at the Alamance County Detention Center was foiled when an inmate mailed the plans to the wrong person, the sheriff's office said.

Authorities in California are searching for six inmates who accessed a 20-foot high roof and escaped from the Merced County Jail Saturday night.

Jeffrey Harrison, an inmate at Three Forks Regional Jail, was able to escape twice in just three months.