COVINGTON, La. -- Early Thursday morning, 35-year-old Christopher Ricker escaped from a St. Tammany work release facility called North Shore Workforce in Covington. It was the latest in a string of ...

Wilmington City Councilwoman Shane Darby addresses a community meeting about the pending closure of the Plummer Correctional Center, which had a prison work release program. (Sarah Mueller/WHYY) What ...

A federal grand jury is investigating former St Tammany Parish Sheriff Rodney "Jack" Strain and one of the privately-run work release programs he ran, owned by the children of some of Strain's top ...

HE REMAINS FREE ON BOND. IF CONVICTED, DIBIASE FACES POTENTIAL PRISON TIME ON EACH COUNT. AN INMATE WHO ESCAPED FROM LOUISIANA HAS BEEN FOUND IN JACKSON. THE TANGIPAHOA PARISH SHERIFF S OFFICE SAYS ...

UPDATE: Thursday, February 19, 2026 @ 2:04 p.m. | BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) — According to Andy Malinoski with the West Virginia Division of Corrections, 42-year-old Jason Eddie Pittman remains on the loose.