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A federal investigation launched in 2018 found that the Wayne County Jail routinely failed to provide critical services for inmates with disabilities. A new settlement lays out requirements for addressing those issues.
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The new monitoring system keeping Detroiters and others in Wayne County aware of what’s in the air. Also, a new security system at Eastern Michigan University looks to AI to identify gun incidents on campus. And learning to sit quietly in your own skin - with nothing on. What two Michiganders learned taking on a side job posing for life drawing classes.
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One hundred stationary air quality monitors are now operational, measuring pollutants like particulate matter, ozone, and nitrogen dioxide in real time, officials say.
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A guide on how Michigan's legislature works, indigenous sugar bash practices, the over-assessment of Detroit's poorest properties, and the "art" of Zingerman's.
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Wayne and Ingham counties are planning to work with the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt on plans to forgive county residents who are in debt to health care systems.
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We look at the ongoing crisis within Wayne county’s juvenile jails, and what’s being done about it.
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The report details the alleged events of the night of March 14, 2023, when a 12-year-old was reportedly assaulted by multiple other youths at the detention center.
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The state monitors were placed in the county’s juvenile detention facility last March, after the alleged sexual assault of a 12-year-old by other detainees. Now, one is accused of criminal sexual conduct and child abuse of a 15-year-old inmate.
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The county ended a longstanding partnership with the University of Michigan in April 2022 due to ongoing problems at the office, including long wait times for issuing death certificates and cremation permits. Funeral homes and families of the deceased also complained about frequent errors and lack of communication from death investigators.
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The ruling stemmed from a 2020 lawsuit. It pointed out that police would often seize people’s vehicles, allegedly for connections to crime or nuisance abatement purposes, without ever actually charging them with a crime—though people could pay to get them back.