NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The sheriff of New Orleans can be put back in control of the city’s long-troubled jail despite still-serious problems that triggered U.S. Justice Department oversight and a 2012 ...

In the last sheriff's campaign, Carter endorsed longtime incumbent Marlin Gusman and Williams endorsed progressive challenger Susan Hutson. Henderson went in hard for Hutson, likely pushing her over ...

Disagreeing with their own investigators, two federal judges said Thursday that progress has been made at the troubled New Orleans jail in the eight months since an appointed administrator took over ...

He says the city needs to pony up more money so he can improve conditions Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman wants the city of New Orleans included in an ongoing lawsuit about conditions at the jail ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Crime and punishment loomed large as issues in New Orleans’ elections Saturday _ a test of the popularity of incumbent Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who won big four years ago, and the ...

Juan Vazquez appears to have injured himself while hurtling a fence armored with razor wire. Sheriff's deputies continued their search Tuesday for an inmate who cut through a temporary jail tent, then ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Sheriff Marlin Gusman told the New Orleans City Council on Thursday that just six months into 2015, his office is out of money. "I think it's not transparent. I think it's bad ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The city of New Orleans will put up $1.88 million this year to pay for extra security and medical personnel and to raise base pay for staff at the city’s jail under an agreement ...

Sheriff Marlin Gusman and Mayor Mitch Landrieu voice their mutual support Thursday (Oct. 23) for a tax measure on the Nov. 4 ballot that would help fund the city's jail. (Richard Rainey, NOLA.com | ...

In a hearing Wednesday on Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s push to eliminate "sanctuary" policies for immigrants in the New Orleans jail, a federal judge peppered a state lawyer with questions ...