RICHMOND, Ind. — A corrections officer at the Wayne County Jail has been accused of delivering drugs to an prisoner. Adrian Jo Blanton, 24, was charged Wednesday in Wayne Superior Court 2 with ...

While Wayne County officials tout the new Criminal Justice Center that was six years in the making as "cutting edge" and "state-of-the-art," union officials and defense attorneys describe last week's ...

The Wayne County Board of Commissioners has approved a $7 million settlement for the family of a man killed in the Wayne County Jail in July 2023 after the family filed a lawsuit alleging the county ...

DETROIT – Inmates say an issue with the systems at the Wayne County Jail have left them stuck inside for far longer than they should be, and they added that the conditions are “horrendous.” Local 4 ...

While Wayne County officials tout the new Criminal Justice Center that was six years in the making as "cutting edge" and "state-of-the-art," union officials and defense attorneys describe last week's ...

DETROIT – Officials have outlined five changes the Wayne County Jail must make to better accommodate inmates with disabilities. After receiving numerous complaints, the United States Attorney’s Office ...

Wayne County will have to guarantee jail inmates access to needed physical and mental health services under a new settlement with the federal government, the U.S. Justice Department announced Monday.

The lawsuit alleges Brown's life could have been saved, had jail staff housed him in a suicide prevention unit and provided proper mental health care. Instead, staff acted in a way that was "grossly ...

In the weeks before Virgil-Dan Brown III, an inmate at the new Wayne County Jail, hanged himself with a bedsheet in his cell, jail staff ignored his cries for help — including a recent suicide attempt ...