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 ...

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 place feels, unsurprisingly, like a jail—which is just one of many hurdles that King County, and its future ... Last week, staffers from the county’s Community and Health Services department took ...

The King County Council ... maintain public health and safety and help people on the path to success,” another woman, who said she lives within walking distance of the jail, countered, arguing ...

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 ...