In May, 10 inmates escaped from a jail in New Orleans, highlighting the facility’s chronic problems. Derrick Groves was at ...

I’m not going to deny the reality — there’s no good explanation,” the interior minister said of how the 20 inmates had ...

Feb. 1 -- With so many high-profile prison escapes recently it might seem that inmates are fleeing like never before. First the "Texas Seven" broke out of a maximum security prison, and now six of ...

The recent escapes follow several other high-profile breakouts, like that of Danilo Cavalcante, a convicted murderer who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison, sparking a two-week manhunt, and the escape ...

It sounded like something out of a movie: Ten inmates at a New Orleans jail surreptitiously cut through cell walls using electric hair trimmers before fleeing into the dead of night when an employee ...

There was a mass prisoner escape after they were temporarily evacuated from their cells during mild earthquake tremors overnight. A group suddenly attacked the guards in Karachi, Pakistan, officials ...