Jackson County officials to host ribbon-cutting ceremony for new $300 million detention center, addressing overcrowding and ...

Jackson County opened its new detention center, but the future of its old facility remains uncertain.

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office is conducting a death investigation after a man was found unresponsive at the Jackson County Detention Center and later died at a local hospital overnight.

Saturday morning about 2:00 a.m. corrections officers at the Jackson County Detention Center were making routine well-being checks when they found two inmates unresponsive in the housing unit ...

One man died and another is hospitalized with critical injuries after an incident at the Jackson County Detention Center ...

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a 44-year-old inmate who was hospitalized after a medical emergency at the Jackson County Detention Center.The Kansas City Fire ...

Rasaan Eason, 22, of Kansas City, was identified as the Jackson County inmate that died Saturday after ingesting an ‘unknown substance.' ...

"At about 2 a.m. Saturday, corrections officers within the Jackson County Detention Center were performing scheduled ...

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said corrections officers were conducting scheduled bed-checks when they found two inmates unresponsive.

Around 2 a.m. Saturday, a spokesperson for the Jackson County Sheriff's Office said corrections officers found two unresponsive inmates inside a housing unit at the detention center.