Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams announces a 99-year prison sentence for Roy S. Brown III, who was convicted of sexually abusing a minor. Prosecutors say the sentence is among the most ...

LaToya Cantrell is the first sitting mayor of New Orleans to come under federal indictment. One law professor says it is very unlikely Cantrell will still be in office if or when her trial begins.

Hurricane Katrina exposed longstanding flaws in the New Orleans criminal justice system. In the 20 years since, there has been dramatic change in the public defender office.

In 2020, Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams pledged sweeping criminal justice reforms in a candidate questionnaire submitted to the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana. "I can ...

Williams has defended his office’s discretion as necessary to avoid over-criminalization and to prioritize more serious threats to public safety. And according to New Orleans Police Department data, ...

In 2006, Ari Shapiro reported on how Hurricane Katrina made an already broken public defender system in New Orleans worse.

Three New Orleans parents running to replace Council Member Joe Giarrusso laid out their plans for making the district a more ...

Lombard said he has called for a city investigation. New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams — whose main role is to represent the government in criminal cases and decide whether to prosecute ...

The cameras are mounted across downtown New Orleans: hanging from balconies on Bourbon Street, bolted to the exterior walls ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was indicted Friday in what prosecutors called a yearslong scheme to ...