On the lawn of the Allen County courthouse, members of the Help Not Handcuffs Coalition reviewed their key findings in their assessment of the county jail.
The Allen County Board of Commissioners presented an update on the progress of building a new Allen County Jail to the Allen County Council Thursday morning.
Along with members of the Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) and Allen County Commissioners were neighbors of the Sunnymede neighborhood in New Haven. The location of the jail, proposed by Allen County Commissioners at Thursday’s meeting, sits right next to the Sunnymede neighborhood.
A New Haven woman whose backyard borders the property line of the proposed site for the new Allen County Jail says she is finally getting answers from the Allen County Commissioners.
On Wednesday, Dec. 27, the purchase agreement for property intended to be used as the new Allen County Jail site was accepted and signed by the landowner.
Alice Luebke says her property line is about 60 feet from the site. She says that she has e-mailed multiple county and city leaders but hasn’t received a response. So, she reached out to our Digging Deeper team voicing her frustration and hoping to get answers.
Allen County Commissioners met with a U.S. District Court judge on Friday to present their latest plan to build a new jail near the Fort Wayne-New Haven border.
We’ve been Digging Deeper into the overcrowding problems at the Allen County Jail for months, and with Friday being the latest deadline from the federal judge who demanded changes, we wanted to take a look at the conditions that are at the heart of the controversy.
It’s a story you might find familiar. Some neighbors are upset about the new proposed location for a new Allen County Jail, months after a federal judge demanded county commissioners address “Inhumane conditions” at the current downtown facility.
After announcing at the end of September that several different properties were being considered to build a new jail on, Allen County Commissioners have announced their top choice.
The process to build a possible new Allen County Jail is slowly moving forward. Thursday, commissioners got a first look at what a new facility might look like.
We continue our coverage of the mandate handed down by a federal judge, calling for major improvements at the Allen County Jail and the push by some to build a new jail.
The Allen County Commissioners gave an update on their efforts to satisfy a federal judge’s order to remedy overcrowding at the Allen County Jail during a County Commissioners Meeting Friday morning.
Allen County Commissioners have now proposed a location to build a new jail after a federal judge said leaders must address overcrowding and remedy “inhumane” conditions at the county jail when a class-action lawsuit was filed.
The Allen County Commissioners responded on Friday after a federal judge said their plan to reduce overcrowding and remedy “inhumane” conditions at the Allen County Jail wasn’t good enough.
Allen County Commissioners on Thursday met with the federal judge who in March issued a stinging rebuke of the downtown jail and who ordered immediate actions to address overcrowding, security and other issues.
Allen County and Sheriff David Gladieux have met a Monday deadline and filed a response to a federal court order that calls for major, immediate changes at the local jail.
The Allen County Sheriff’s Department (ACSD) says an inmate at the Allen County Jail battered and seriously injured a confinement officer Thursday night.
In a ruling likely to have wide-ranging impact, a U.S. District Court judge has found in favor of the plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit addressing myriad deficiencies at the Allen County Jail.
JAVA which stands for Justice, Accountability & Victims Advocacy held a meeting Sunday afternoon about jail injustices that might occur within the Allen County Jail.
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