The Passaic County Jail is one of the oldest operating county jails in the state, officials have said. Problems began not long after its 1957 opening. In 1978, ...

Sheriff's Office salaries, meanwhile, increased from about $28 million in 2021 to more than $35 million in 2022, records show. County commissioners budgeted more than $41 million for 2023.

The county awarded a $3.4 million contract to Caravella Demolition to knock down the jail and remove the debris. The job should be done by May.

Demolition began at the notorious Passaic County Jail. “There must be 3 million pounds of steel in this building,” Caravella said, noting the labyrinth of jail cells that remain the building.

PATERSON — The Passaic County Jail is going out with a bang. In its final month before demolition, the empty corrections facility in Paterson’s downtown area is being used as a location for ...

PATERSON — The Passaic County Jail — where conditions were once so deplorable a federal judge ordered that several inmates be released — will undergo a multimillion-dollar overhaul in ...

Layoffs are coming to the Passaic County Sheriff's Office in July, but how many is still unknown, county officials said. Initial information released early in January had the department laying off ...

Authorities have arrested a 36-year-old Paterson man in connection with a shooting that sent one person to the hospital in ...

The Passaic County Sheriff’s Office somehow managed to avoid the myriad problems that plagued the Paterson Police Department during the past six years. In that time, 12 Paterson cops were ...

Democrat Thomas Adamo, chief of the Passaic County Sheriff’s Office, faces off against Republican and fellow Wayne resident Marla Saracino, a veteran of the county Prosecutor’s Office, in a ...

The incident happened on Tuesday just after 3:30 p.m. By 3:38 p.m., a call went out over the Passaic County Sheriff's Office radio system for all units to respond. Berdnik went into the bathroom at ...

Layoffs are coming to the Passaic County Sheriff's Office in July, but how many is still unknown, county officials said. Initial information released early in January had the department laying off ...