A new coalition is hoping to convince the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office to end its agreement with U.S. Immigrations and ...

A pursuit that started in Spirit Lake, Iowa, and ended in Jackson, Minnesota, after the fleeing vehicle crashed.

Records show a Cherokee County mother died an hour after she was found in distress without being transferred to a hospital ...

Jackson County officials break ground in September 2022 for the county's new detention center at the site of a former mobile home park in northeast Kansas City. A letter from Mayor Quinton Lucas ...

Body camera footage showed James Kerr pulling a gun on a Jackson County deputy after attempting to escape during a probation ...

Jackson County officials recently learned the cost to build a new jail might be escalating — dramatically. The size of the increase is murky, but substantial. “Nothing’s on paper,” one ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - On Wednesday, Jackson County Executive Frank White Jr. shared the county has reached an agreement on a municipal jail site for the City of Kansas City. County Executive ...

Policymakers and criminal justice reform activists seek an audit and reevaluation of the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Detention ...

Missourians who are arrested and declared incompetent to stand trial wait in jail an average of 14 months before receiving treatment (Getty Images). A man who spent months in a Kansas City jail ...

Share your story with Isabella. Jackson County and Kansas City, Missouri, officials announced Wednesday they agreed on a site for a new municipal jail after recommendations from city and county ...

An inmate at the Jackson County Detention Center died over the weekend, according to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.