HAMTRAMCK, Mich. – Hamtramck District Judge Alexis G. Krot is apologizing to a 72-year old cancer patient who she criticized and wanted to give jail time to due to overgrown weeds on his property.

She acknowledged that the county's juvenile jail is "overburdened" by holding ... to routinely "pop" their room locks open at the former Hamtramck facility. “I stayed in there to protect the ...

The county moved juveniles out of the facility in October 2022 because of safety concerns caused by understaffing and overcrowding, relocating them into a former adult jail in Hamtramck.