Wayne County could be closer to losing the license for its juvenile jail after the state said Tuesday that it intends to downgrade the facility’s status for the second time in less than four months.

A former county employee has been charged with sexually assaulting two teen boys inside Wayne County's troubled juvenile jail. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy has charged Svetlana Kuryanova, 33, of ...

Wayne County is expected to open its new jail in March, marking a significant milestone in a project aimed at improving safety and efficiency for staff and inmates. The project, which is expected to ...

Wayne County fired two top leaders at its juvenile jail, with an official saying the terminations were caused by their job performance. Meanwhile, in what county officials say is an unrelated incident ...

The Wayne County Sheriff's Office quietly changed its policy last month about cooperating with federal immigration officials when the county jail houses an individual who is accused of being illegally ...

A Roseville man who was held in the Wayne County Jail for six days after a judge ordered his release is now suing the county and sheriff. Liam West-Campeau, 22, has a filed a federal class action ...

Wayne County Sheriff Raphael Washington laid out programming plans for the move into the new jail. As much as the sheriff would like to have the nearly 1,300 inmates in the old jail transferred over, ...