NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - An Orleans Parish sex offender has been sentenced to 99 years in state prison after being convicted of sexually abusing a minor. Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams ...

N EW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams on Monday (Aug. 19) defended his office’s role in ...

The arrest of 27-year veteran New Orleans Police Department officer Terrance Johnson has caused frustration across all law ...

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

In 2020, Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams pledged sweeping criminal justice reforms in a candidate ...

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, ...

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

New Orleans clerk of court staff stood ankle-deep in a massive landfill, digging through mounds of trash, to salvage court records that the city erroneously discarded. As photos surfaced online — ...