An Oakland County woman has been sentenced to prison for sexually assaulting two teenage boys while working at a Wayne County ...

County officials fired the director and deputy director of the Wayne County Juvenile Detention Facility, while another ...

Detroit — A 35-year-old man killed himself at the Wayne County Jail's division 1 facility downtown on Thursday, officials said Friday.. The man's body was found just before 1 p.m., said Deputy ...

WWJ Newsradio 950's Florence Walton reports the two downtown Detroit jails will probably be demolished, but County Commissioner Martha Scott said the Hamtramck jail building is in good shape.

The vacant jail has cells that are harder to escape from, staff say. Much of the overcrowding can be attributed to a statewide shortage of residential beds, an issue outside of the county’s ...

"They put me (in) jail, but I didn't do anything wrong," Mohamed Wassel, 24, of Hamtramck, ... Hamtramck Police Chief Anne Moise did not return a message left Monday afternoon.

Hamtramck Judge Alexis Krot has apologized to an elderly cancer patient she berated and threatened with jail time over some unkempt weeds outside his home. And she said she's reporting herself to ...

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.

Hamtramck Police Chief Jamiel Altaheri has been placed on administrative leave. The police chief feels him being placed on leave is "retaliatory action," Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib said.

A Michigan judge has ruled that a 72-year-old man with lymphoma who is too weak for yard work must mow his "shameful" lawn and pay $100 fine. "You should be ashamed of yourself. If I could give ...