Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman continues to live in an alternate reality when it comes to facing facts about his failure to properly run the city's jail. After being in denial for months, if not ...

The ankle monitor of a teenager linked to a violent crime spree Tuesday in the Uptown area malfunctioned, preventing deputies from Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman's office from tracking the ...

Advocate staff photo by MATTHEW HINTON--Sheriff Marlin Gusman speaks about the state of the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office and the OPSO Jail at Beacon Light International Baptist Cathedral in New ...

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 ...

The agreement was announced at a 10 a.m. news conference The federal consent decree announced Tuesday by U.S. Justice Department officials is designed to reform what the federal government argues are ...

NEWORLEANS - Early in March, Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman testified in a civil deposition that he hadn't seen the now infamous videos of inmates flashing a handgun, drinking beer, and snorting ...

Sheriff Marlin Gusman's decision to shut down the House of Detention is an overdue and badly needed step toward addressing conditions at Orleans Parish Prison that have been blasted by the Department ...

Louisiana's Orleans Parish Prison complex has been called "one of the worst large-city jails in the whole country," and a now-viral video showing an institution "wracked by violence, inmate suicides, ...

New Orleans, La. – Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman walked out of federal court with cameras trained on him and reporters shouting questions. Dozens of people showed up just to see Gusman testify.

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) -- A federal appeals court on Monday threw out a jury's award of more than $650,000 to two Ohio tourists who were arrested in New Orleans on public drunkenness charges two days before ...

It's hard to beat an incumbent sheriff. But it's not impossible. The campaign for Orleans Parish sheriff this year will feature multiple candidates. Though some familiar names will be on the ballot, ...