A recent alleged assault of a 75-year-old woman by a repeat offender in Seattle has prompted public safety leaders to ...

Today the Seattle City Council approved a pilot program proposed by Mayor Harrell to house some misdemeanor offenders at the SCORE Jail in Des Moines. Due to staffing shortages at the King County Jail ...

SEATTLE — Plans to pay for more jail beds to house misdemeanor offenders are being denounced by Seattle City Councilmember Tammy Morales, who said it will lead to higher costs with fewer resources to ...

Due to lack of space in the King County Jail, the City of Seattle is considering a pilot program that would pay for jail beds at the SCORE jail facility in Des Moines for misdemeanor offenders. The ...

Seattle has finally started tossing people in jail for low-level crimes again after four years of letting shoplifters, vandals and other petty criminals walk free. The change, which went into effect ...

The iconic Art-Deco building that dominates Seattle’s Beacon Hill could become King County’s juvenile jail and courthouse. The PacMed Building started out as a hospital. It’s been Amazon’s home for ...

SEATTLE – A former King County Jail guard, two men incarcerated in the jail and three other people have been indicted in an alleged scheme to smuggle fentanyl and methamphetamine into the downtown ...

Seattle and King County announced a deal Friday that will let the city use 135 jail beds for people suspected of misdemeanor crimes and lift booking restrictions that have been in place for four years ...

SEATTLE — Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison said the King County Jail will not book people for certain misdemeanor crimes, such as animal cruelty and certain property destruction and theft cases. Last ...

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell will soon propose an agreement authorizing the city of Seattle, for the first time, to temporarily incarcerate people arrested on misdemeanor charges in a Des Moines jail ...

Seattle city leaders are mad that a homeless man with 72 criminal convictions was finally put in jail, instead of being offered treatment he won’t accept so that he ends up back on the streets, ...

The message from North Seattle residents about a jail on Aurora Avenue North was loud and clear: No inmates here, please. About 175 people gathered at North Seattle Community College on Saturday to ...