Wayne County announced ... the Gratiot jail fiasco. It's had twists and turns and probably more curveballs than I want to think about." The location includes land that the Detroit Board of ...

Wayne County Executive Warren Evans said if a land swap deal needed to build a $520.3-million criminal justice complex north of downtown isn't approved by the Detroit City Council— which is ...

DETROIT (WWJ) - Will Wayne County bail on its half-finished new jail? Potential cost overruns, lack of financing and a state jail, are all reasons why the $200 million project might get the death ...

Plans are underway to transform a vacant parcel of land in downtown Detroit that was previously earmarked to house a bond-financed jail for Wayne County in Michigan. The site, now owned by Bedrock ...

DETROIT -- The proposed site for a new Wayne County jail complex, located just east of I-75, opposite the city's Midtown neighborhood, currently holds a juvenile courthouse and may be ...

A man who was critically injured during a fight July 13 in the Wayne County Jail has died, according to the Wayne County Sheriff's Office. Thomas Carr and Claude Lewis, 28, got into a fight inside ...

Michigan State Police in the Metro Detroit will wear black mourning ... More: Man slain in Wayne County Jail was 2 days from extradition to Ohio An Oak Park man, Carl Smelley Jr., 38, has been ...

Wayne County corporation counsel Zenna Elhasan is taking on a new role at the Troy-based nonprofit. Demolition of the above-ground structures in downtown Detroit appeared to be completed on ...

Wayne County won't finish the half-built jail in downtown Detroit, a move that further smooths the road to having the 15-acre eyesore on Gratiot Avenue redeveloped by billionaire Dan Gilbert and a ...

DETROIT (WWJ) - One of Wayne County's resolutions for 2017 is to finish building the so-called "fail jail" that has been mothballed the past four years. The unfinished 2,000-bed jail is an eyesore ...

DETROIT -- A Wayne County Sheriff's corporal who authorities said was brutally attacked Wednesday night by a 28-year-old jail inmate died while being treated at the hospital. "It is with ...