According to the TPSO, 42-year-old Donald Ray Wilson was in a program that allows inmates to work jobs with partner businesses outside of the jail. Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office investigates ...

HAMMOND, La. (WVUE) - The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that Tra’Von Johnson, the 22-year-old accused murderer who escaped Thursday (May 22) from the parish jail for a ...

The town’s name—Ponchatoula—rolls off the tongue like a gentle incantation, its Choctaw origins meaning “hair to hang,” a poetic reference to the Spanish moss that drapes from oak trees throughout the ...

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division arrested 13 boaters statewide for alleged driving or operating a vessel while impaired from May 24 to May 26.

A work-release prisoner in Tangipahoa Parish was caught early Friday morning after he reportedly walked off a job site hours ...

The Black and Gold held their first practice of mandatory minicamp Tuesday afternoon, and although the 93-degree temperatures created an intense environment, head coach Kellen Moore had no ...

PONCHATOULA, La. (WVUE) - An old rusting train engine tells the history of Ponchatoula and its boomtown days as a lumber town. Engine No. 3 also stirs childhood memories for some people who, years ...

INMATE RAN OFF AND HAS NOT BEEN FOUND. AND THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THE ORLEANS PARISH JAIL HAS BEEN UNDER FIRE FOR INCIDENTS INVOLVING ITS INMATES. BACK IN 2009, ARTHUR JOHNSON ESCAPED FROM THE ...

Three escapees had been captured by Friday night. The Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office said the inmates might have had help from jail workers. By Michael Levenson The rectangular hole in the cell ...

THERE’S A GOOD CHANCE YOU’VE HEARD OF THE SQUIRREL CAGE JAIL IN COUNCIL BLUFFS. IT WAS A UNIQUE WAY TO KEEP PRISONERS BEHIND BARS IN THE LATE 1800S. IT IS THE LARGEST ROTATING JAIL BLOCK EVER ...

Patiala: Sangrur police have dismantled a well-organised smuggling operation run from inside the district jail, leading to the arrest of a deputy superintendent of police (DSP), a Class-IV ...

Since his arrest in 2024, Sean “Diddy” Combs has been an inmate at a New York jail. Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center is somewhat notorious, both for the famous inmates and the ...