Jackson County Detention Center

A former corrections officer at the Jackson County Detention Center admitted that she helped smuggle contraband to inmates at the center.

A special committee appointed to study operations at the Jackson County Detention Center has released its final report with several suggestions for improvement.

A task force examining problems at the Jackson County Detention Center is focusing primarily on work conditions such as mandatory overtime that might have led to inmate abuse. County officials said last month that they had discovered four cases of guards using excessive force against prisoners who were restrained and posed no threat...