WDSU sources have shared a photo of the hole dug by inmates who escaped the Orleans Parish Jail Friday. The photo has been edited due to the nature of the messages written on the wall. The photo shows ...

Sheriff Susan Hutson says inmates exploited faulty cell locks to escape the Orleans Justice Center, calling it a security failure long warned about.

The idea of being paid to draw cartoons appealed to Hands, and the gig didn't seem like too much work. Thirty years later, ...

A Monday homicide in the Highland Park area of East Topeka and a bank robbery that occurred minutes later on the southwest side of town were connected, officials announced Wednesday morning.

A rural Cameron man who has been in jail since early March 2025 will spend three years in the state penitentiary at Waupun on a child pornography possession charge, following ...

A Racine man has been sentenced to 44 months in federal prison for his role in a coordinated "swatting" scheme that ...

President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a ...

More than 800 people spoke for 30 hours in four cities across Wisconsin last month, advising key lawmakers on the state ...

The former Waupun warden's reduced conviction to a low-level misdemeanor in connection with a prisoner's death has elicited ...

which carries a maximum sentence of 1½ years in prison and two years of extended supervision. Hepp, 63, was the highest ranking of nine Waupun Correctional Institution staff members charged with ...