Authorities have arrested an Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office maintenance worker in connection with the escape of 10 jail inmates. Thirty-three-year-old Sterling Williams has admitted he turned the wat ...

A maintenance employee at a New Orleans jail has been taken into custody for allegedly aiding in the escape of 10 inmates late last week, officials confirmed on Tuesday.  The arrest comes as the searc ...

The accused, 33-year-old Sterling Williams, is facing one count of malfeasance in office and 10 counts of principal to simple ...

About 12:20 a.m., prisoners yank open a cell door when the jail's lone guard is away getting food. The men escape through a ...

Meanwhile, an inmate threatened to stab the employee with a "shank," a homemade knife, according to the employee's statement ...

An inmate who allegedly threatened a maintenance worker into helping him and nine other men break out of a New Orleans jail ...

The maintenance worker arrested after 10 inmates escaped from a New Orleans jail says he only helped because he was ...

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

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

Six inmates from the New Orleans prison are still on the loose after a jail employee was allegedly cut off water to a cell where inmates pulled out a toilet and climbed ...