It highlights King County Executive Dow Constantine’s urgent request for a new facility that prioritizes efficiency, safety and the treatment of behavioral health issues. One of the major ...

Its physical layout does not lend itself to behavioral health and other care. We must reimagine King County's downtown Seattle campus in light of the realities of today and the old jail must at ...

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As the Seattle Times reported last week, a shortage of corrections officers at King County’s jails triggered a mental health crisis among ... help bring down the jail population to safe ...

The statement reads, "there is great concern about ongoing mental health assessment ... longtime agreement between ACLU-WA and King County regarding jail conditions. In 1989, ACLU-WA and brought ...

Jail health staff was called once the officer noticed ... and the other was for possession of a stolen vehicle. The King County Medical Examiner’s Office will be conducting a review to determine ...

officers from the same department returned to pull him out of treatment and take him to jail instead. Prosecutors in King County, which includes Seattle, then charged Page with felony assault. Under ...