Grand Traverse County jail
The Record-Eagle's past and continuing coverage of Grand Traverse County's jail:
- By Patti Brandt Burgess pburgess@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County jail officials are seeking a new provider for mental health services after coming to a stalemate in cont…
- BY MARDI LINK mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A judge approved the settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against Northern Lakes Community Mental Health and a former …
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A judge took no action in a restitution hearing in the criminal case against former Grand Traverse County Jail Administrator T…
- By Brooke Kansier bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A woman was returned to jail uninjured after she attempted to hang herself in her cell, officials said.
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A mental health organization will ask a judge to permanently seal financial details of a settlement in a wrongful death lawsui…
- By Brooke Kansier bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A woman was “conscious and alert” after investigators say jail employees intervened in her attempt to hang herself.
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A hearing has been scheduled in the criminal case against former Grand Traverse County Jail Administrator Todd Ritter, where a…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Former Grand Traverse County Jail Administrator Todd Ritter was sentenced to 16 months to 10 years in prison, after pleading g…
- By Patti Brandt Burgess pburgess@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A contract that provides mental health services to the Grand Traverse County jail expired at the end of December, leaving inma…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A guilty plea will spare a former Grand Traverse County Jail Administrator a trial.
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Plea negotiations in the felony criminal case against former Grand Traverse County Jail Administrator Todd Ritter will continu…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Overburdened corrections officers, poor communication between outside health care providers, files of inmate health records on…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Plea negotiations in the criminal case against a former Grand Traverse County jail administrator are continuing, an attorney r…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — The criminal case against a former Grand Traverse County jail administrator has moved a step closer to trial.
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Former Grand Traverse County jail administrator Todd Ritter has rejected a plea offer from the state Attorney General’s office…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County Sheriff Tom Bensley spoke at length and with barely contained aggravation about former Jail Administrato…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Two Grand Traverse County Commissioners will try again Wednesday to question Sheriff Tom Bensley about jail oversight, after p…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A public reckoning of what one elected official called “areas of concern on several fronts” regarding oversight of Grand Trave…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A Grand Traverse County Prosecutor’s office attorney issued a cautionary memo Friday, following public statements by Commissio…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Former Jail Administrator Todd Ritter remains free on bond, after the Attorney General’s office provided discovery documents i…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — An attempt by two Grand Traverse County commissioners to question Sheriff Tom Bensley about jail oversight was locked down whe…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Staff and healthcare providers inside Grand Traverse County’s jail do a decent job of caring for an inmate’s physical health, …
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Former jail administrator Todd Ritter was arraigned in 86th District Court Friday on felony and misdemeanor charges stemming f…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
LANSING — Former Grand Traverse County Jail Administrator Todd Ritter has been arrested by Michigan State Police troopers following a state At…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Whether former Grand Traverse County Jail Administrator Todd Ritter will face criminal charges remains unknown more than five …
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Twelve Grand Traverse County jail inmates were transported to prison Wednesday following a state OK — the first of its kind si…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — National experts on inmate healthcare will assess procedures in Grand Traverse County’s jail, following approval of a proposal…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A decision on whether former Grand Traverse County Jail Administrator Todd Ritter will face criminal charges remains a mystery…
- BY MARDI LINK mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — The Grand Traverse County jail’s health care provider would be put under the microscope if a request by Sheriff Tom Bensley fo…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — The state’s Attorney General’s office will decide whether former Jail Administrator Todd Ritter will face criminal charges, a …
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A lawsuit filed in federal court claims a corporate healthcare provider’s policies endangered the lives of two Grand Traverse …
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A yet-to-be named special prosecutor will decide whether former Jail Administrator Todd Ritter will face criminal charges.
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — The head of Northern Lakes Community Mental Health will deliver an annual presentation to the Grand Traverse County board Wedn…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — It costs more per person for mental health services if you live in Grand Traverse County and commissioners may be willing to p…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — The mother of Alan Halloway, a man who died by suicide in the Grand Traverse County Jail in 2017, has filed a multiple-count c…
- By Brooke Kansier bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A resolution in the probe into James Chisholm’s death is no closer than it was months ago — after a November delay, the teen a…
- By Brooke Kansier bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A decision about whether former Jail Administrator Todd Ritter will face criminal charges will wait a little longer.
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Calls for jail reform came repeatedly this year from citizens, elected officials and via social media, prompting public expres…
- By Patti Brandt Burgess pburgess@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A woman was sent to the hospital Saturday after using socks to try and hang herself at the Grand Traverse County jail, authori…
- By Brooke Kansier bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A $163,500 contract will continue mental health services for inmates in Grand Traverse County’s jail.
- BY MARDI LINK mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — It took nearly a century, but the American Civil Liberties Union has “discovered” northern Michigan.
- By Brooke Kansier bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Wellpath Founder Gerard Boyle will face charges amid accusations he bribed a Virginia sheriff to secure contract extensions.
- By Brooke Kansier bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Jennilyn Oster wanted to do more for the students walking her district’s halls.
- By Brooke Kansier bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Accounts of how, when and why inmates receive medications inside Grand Traverse County’s jail are sparse, but what’s available…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Inmates addicted to opioids are less likely to relapse, contract an infectious disease, die from suicide or overdose if they r…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — County officials have several suggestions to consider regarding inmate health at the Grand Traverse County Jail, following a p…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Following questions from county commissioners, Grand Traverse County Sheriff Tom Bensley told the city’s Human Rights Commissi…
- By Brooke Kansier bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Traverse City Police investigated an attempted suicide in Grand Traverse County’s jail hours after a settlement in the inmate …
- By Brooke Kansier bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — County officials agreed to pay $20,000 to the relatives of a woman who died by suicide after 19 days in Grand Traverse County’s jail.
- By Brooke Kansier bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — An investigation of former Grand Traverse County Jail Administrator Todd Ritter is in the hands of the prosecutor.
- By Brooke Kansier bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Weeks of public outcry over health care provided inside Grand Traverse County’s jail spurred officials to break their silence …
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County commissioners will discuss inmate health at their monthly meeting Wednesday, following an ongoing contro…
Recognizing shortcomings and finding ways to fix them is a hallmark of great leadership.
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County Administrator Nate Alger has completed his inquiry into the handling of a former jail inmate’s medical c…
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Five new part-time bailiffs will staff judicial sessions at the Robert P. Griffin Hall of Justice beginning Nov. 1.
- BY MARDI LINK mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY –- One male inmate in the Grand Traverse County jail tested positive for hepatitis A Friday, and the county health department re…
The issue: Concerns about conditions inside Grand Traverse County’s jail continue to surface
- By Mardi Link mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Fear of retaliation from and poor health care from the Grand Traverse County jail’s corporate outsourcer dominated public comm…
- BY BROOKE KANSIER bkansier@record-eagle.com and MARDI LINK mlink@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Greg Hall was fed up.
- By Brooke Kansier bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Hope of a better approach spurred local prosecutors, police and attorneys — and slews of peers from across the state — to Kirk…
- By Brooke Kansier bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Marilyn Lucille Palmer hanged herself less than three months before her 37th birthday.
- BY MARK JOHNSON mjohnson@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Brenda Strait knew something wasn’t right the first time she stepped into Dr. James Leete’s office with her drug-addicted son.
- BY MARK JOHNSON mjohnson@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County sheriff’s Lt. Chris Barsheff takes command of a county jail wracked by scandal in the wake of former Cap…
- BY MARK JOHNSON mjohnson@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A fired Grand Traverse County jail officer accused of passing notes between inmates emerged free of criminal penalties after p…
- BY MARK JOHNSON mjohnson@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County Jail Administrator Todd Ritter’s alleged inappropriate relations with female inmates could prompt crimin…
- BY MARK JOHNSON mjohnson@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — An internal investigation yielded lewd text messages, photographs and a several-page list of misconduct between Grand Traverse…
- BY MARK JOHNSON mjohnson@record-eagle.com
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TRAVERSE CITY — Someone left a vial filled with a mysterious substance in Grand Traverse County’s jail cell — officers hope to find its owner.
- BY MARK JOHNSON mjohnson@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County's jail Capt. Todd Ritter submitted his resignation letter April 11, a week after officials placed him on…
- BY MARK JOHNSON mjohnson@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County’s jail Capt. Todd Ritter is on a paid suspension until an internal investigation concludes.
- BY MARK JOHNSON mjohnson@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County’s jail Capt. Todd Ritter is on a paid suspension until an internal investigation concludes.
- BY MARK JOHNSON mjohnson@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County jail officers found a surprise during a routine inmate body search last month — pot and suboxone stuffed…
- BY ALEXA ZOELLNER azoellner@record-eagle.com
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TRAVERSE CITY — Steps aimed at increasing the safety of inmates at Grand Traverse County's jail continue to be taken by county officials.
- BY ALEXA ZOELLNER azoellner@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County officials hope to increase the safety of inmates at the county jail by making modifications to shower areas.
- BY MARK JOHNSON mjohnson@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Deputy Josh Wolf saw the 81-year-old man collapsed in a driveway and knew it was finally time to put his training to work.
- BY ALEXA ZOELLNER azoellner@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — In the wake of two inmate suicides, Grand Traverse County commissioners formed a committee to enhance the mental health servic…
- BY MARK JOHNSON mjohnson@record-eagle.com
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TRAVERSE CITY — Authorities accused a woman of attempting to smuggle drugs into the jail after a deputy found a pipe with leftover meth inside.
- BY MARK JOHNSON mjohnson@record-eagle.com
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TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County’s jail is set for a few small facelifts that many hope will increase safety.
- BY MARK JOHNSON mjohnson@record-eagle.com
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TRAVERSE CITY — A mother and her family soon will receive a significant settlement after her son killed himself in Grand Traverse County’s jai…
- BY MARK JOHNSON mjohnson@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County commissioners approved a $125,000 settlement with Alan Halloway’s family after he committed suicide in t…
- FROM STAFF REPORTS
TRAVERSE CITY — Administrators at Grand Traverse County’s jail fired an officer who faces charges following allegations he passed notes betwee…
- BY ALEXA ZOELLNER azoellner@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — “Man, it’s heavy.”
The Issue: Now is the time of year when we pause and take stock of the year that's almost in the rearview mirror.
- FROM STAFF REPORTS
The following are the top 10 stories that grabbed headlines in the Record-Eagle in the past year.
- BY MARK JOHNSON mjohnson@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Darcie Pickren knows the stress and isolation that comes with a jail sentence.
- BY ALEXA ZOELLNER azoellner@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Mental health services in the Grand Traverse County Jail will be expanded to allow for inmates to receive mental health care p…
- BY ALEXA ZOELLNER azoellner@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — It’s difficult to argue that mental health services aren’t important, especially in the Grand Traverse County Jail where there…
- BY SHERI McWHIRTER smcwhirter@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Marco Brown nearly joined the ranks of one type of statistic, and now strives to keep himself a member of another sort.
- BY ALEXA ZOELLNER azoellner@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Funds to allow for a settlement between Grand Traverse County and the family of a man who killed himself in the county's jail …
- BY MARK JOHNSON mjohnson@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A four-year commissioner hopes to continue her Grand Traverse County board career, while government concerns prompted a challe…
- BY JORDAN TRAVIS jtravis@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Corrections officers and first responders revived a man after he stopped breathing in Grand Traverse County's jail during a su…
- BY JORDAN TRAVIS jtravis@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County spent less and took in more in 2017 than originally anticipated, and now county commissioners will debat…
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — An attorney for the families of two inmates who killed themselves inside Grand Traverse County’s jail hopes to uncover thousan…
- BY MATT TROUTMAN mtroutman@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A settlement puts to bed a lawsuit over Grand Traverse County sheriff's officials withholding of certain details in a jail inm…
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
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TRAVERSE CITY — Several women inside Grand Traverse County’s jail likely will face additional criminal charges after police said one woman was…
The issue: Sheriff refutes Record-Eagle reporting and editorial
- BY THOMAS J. BENSLEY
In an article on March 23 and an editorial on March 25, the Record-Eagle once again provided inaccurate and misleading information.
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Grand Traverse County Sheriff Tom Bensley restated the obvious last week when he told county commissioners it’s time to address dysfunction in…
- BY MATT TROUTMAN mtroutman@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Stanley McAskin died surrounded by 16 empty pill bottles, all bearing his doctor’s name.
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Handwritten notes alerted corrections officers to an inmate’s pleas for help days before her lifeless body was found hanging i…
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County’s sheriff had a simple message for county commissioners: The services provided at the jail are woefully …
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
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TRAVERSE CITY — An inmate serving time for an embezzlement conviction faces an additional criminal charge after police said he sexually assaul…
- BY MARK JOHNSON mjohnson@record-eagle.com
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TRAVERSE CITY — Authorities discovered what they suspect is a shiv hidden in a Grand Traverse County jail cell.
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Brandon MacMaster knows the next two months in Grand Traverse County’s jail will be demanding if he doesn’t receive the medica…
- BY MATT TROUTMAN mtroutman@record-eagle.com
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TRAVERSE CITY — An inmate at Grand Traverse County's jail claimed another inmate sexually assaulted him as he slept, authorities said.
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Suicide attempts continue to afflict Grand Traverse County’s jail after an inmate was found hanging dead and two more attempte…
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Deputies again prevented a suicide at Grand Traverse County’s jail after an inmate was spotted on surveillance cameras with a …
It’s time to put all the cards on the table, lives depend upon it.
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Panicked screams from fellow inmates echoed throughout Grand Traverse County’s jail before officers found Marilyn Lucille Palm…
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Officials provided only a thumbnail sketch of circumstances surrounding a woman's apparent suicide inside Grand Traverse Count…
- FROM STAFF REPORTS
TRAVERSE CITY — A woman’s death is under investigation after corrections officers again found an inmate hanging dead inside Grand Traverse Cou…
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Most of the inmates at Grand Traverse County’s jail have seen better days.
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
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TRAVERSE CITY — A lawsuit targets Grand Traverse County officials after some claimed a recent, closed-door commission meeting ran afoul of sta…
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A special prosecutor will decide whether criminal charges should be levied against corrections officers after a man last year …
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Authorities halted another inmate's attempt to commit suicide inside Grand Traverse County’s jail.
- From staff reports
EDITOR'S NOTE: The continuing grim grip of the nationwide opioid epidemic, probes into a high-profile suicide inside Grand Traverse County's j…
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Police said a local inmate twice tried to kill herself in one evening at Grand Traverse County’s jail before she was eventuall…
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A special prosecutor may soon be assigned to further investigate the circumstances that led to an inmate's suicide inside Gran…
- BY MATT TROUTMAN mtroutman@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — It’s Grand Traverse County’s 27-acre, 17-year-old question: What to do with the LaFranier Road property?
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Another inmate's suicide attempt was again thwarted by corrections officers after deputies said they stopped a local man from …
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A 48-year-old inmate was taken to a hospital after he was found attempting to hang himself from his bunk bed, marking the seco…
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Authorities said they interrupted a recent suicide attempt after an inmate at Grand Traverse County’s jail tried to choke hers…
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — The parents of an inmate who hanged himself in Grand Traverse County’s jail aim to hold the county and the sheriff’s departmen…
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Corrections officers said they stopped an inmate’s recent suicide attempt inside a jail cell.
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A lawyer aims to pry loose key details surrounding an inmate’s suicide at Grand Traverse County’s jail with a lawsuit levied a…
- BY MATT TROUTMAN mtroutman@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A Traverse City woman faces accusations she broke into a relative's safe to steal prescription pills.
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — An inmate’s suicide attempt led him on a trip to the hospital.
- BY THOMAS J. BENSLEY Grand Traverse County Sheriff
Editor’s note: The following is Grand Traverse County Sheriff Tom Bensley’s response to the Record-Eagle’s Sept. 3 editorial regarding his han…
Sheriff Tom Bensley’s response to the Record-Eagle’s recent editorial questioning steep charges levied by his office to fulfill a Freedom of I…
- BY STEPHANIE BRZEZINSKI sbrzezinski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Tom Bousamra has seen many holes to fill during his 30-plus years as a chaplain for Grand Traverse County’s jail.
It cost the public $636 for a glimpse inside one of Grand Traverse County’s largest taxpayer-funded institutions last week.
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A Michigan Sheriff’s Association investigation indicates unchecked cells, botched paperwork and other inadequacies at Grand Tr…
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — The slow release of information related to the death of an inmate found hanging from a noose in his cell at Grand Traverse Cou…
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Authorities anticipate a potential lawsuit following “some indications” of negligence or wrongdoing by corrections officers af…
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — An inmate facing a slew of felony charges, including attempted murder, is dead after corrections officers found him unresponsi…
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Alan Bradley Halloway will remain in Grand Traverse County’s jail on a $1 million cash or surety bond after he was arraigned o…
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A man accused of shooting another during an argument outside a Traverse City apartment complex will face multiple felony charg…
- BY KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Police have requested an attempted murder charge against a suspect accused of shooting a man at a Traverse City apartment complex.
- BY CAROL THOMPSON cthompson@record-eagle.com AND KYLE KAMINSKI kkaminski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — KeAnna Harris saw a stranger fire four shots into a man's body, amid a flurry of kicks and punches, before fleeing the Bay Hil…
- BY MATT TROUTMAN mtroutman@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A Blair Township man's mistaken release from jail led to a dog's death after it attacked a sheriff's deputy tasked with rearre…
- BY CAROL THOMPSON cthompson@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — An inmate in Grand Traverse County's jail was revived after paramedics administered an overdose-reversal drug, authorities said.
- BY MATT TROUTMAN mtroutman@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — There’s a simple way Northern Lakes Community Mental Health workers judge whether a person is suffering a mental health crisis.
- BY MATT TROUTMAN mtroutman@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A new plan effectively reverses a much-criticized move by Northern Lakes Community Mental Health officials to withdraw service…
- BY CAROL THOMPSON cthompson@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A dwindling pot of money used to send Grand Traverse County inmates to other nearby jails could lead officials to release more…
- BY MATT TROUTMAN mtroutman@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Local defense attorney Janet Mistele couldn't understand why a jailed client’s messages asking for help from Northern Lakes Co…
- BY MATT TROUTMAN mtroutman@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A Grawn woman tried to hang herself in what's the second recent suicide attempt at Grand Traverse County's jail.
- BY MATT TROUTMAN mtroutman@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — An ambulance carted a Traverse City man from Grand Traverse County's jail after authorities said he slashed at his wrists with…
- BY MICHAEL WALTON mwalton@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County commissioners at the last minute approved a settlement agreement in a lawsuit over a county jail inmate'…
- BY MICHAEL WALTON mwalton@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County commissioners voted to accept a settlement deal that ends a lawsuit filed by a woman whose son died in t…
- BY MICHAEL WALTON mwalton@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County commissioners will follow their legal counsel's recommendations in the run-up to a pending trial about a…
- BY MATT TROUTMAN mtroutman@record-eagle.com and MICHAEL WALTON mwalton@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A civil lawsuit over a man's death in Grand Traverse County's jail is poised to begin trial in federal court.
- BY MICHAEL WALTON mwalton@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County officials could lease an unused portion of the county's jail facilities to a nonprofit addiction treatme…
- BY MICHAEL WALTON mwalton@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Officials from Grand Traverse County and Northern Lakes Community Mental Health will discuss a possible resolution to a long-running dispute over mental health services for county jail inmates during a Wednesday meeting.
- BY MICHAEL WALTON mwalton@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County's sheriff wants to hire a new employee to collect debts from inmates sentenced to serve time at the coun…
- BY MICHAEL WALTON mwalton@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County officials want a regional public mental health agency to do more to cover the costs of psychiatric services in the county jail.
- BY MICHAEL WALTON mwalton@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Attorneys representing Grand Traverse County want a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the county and Sheriff Tom Bensley related to a man's death in the county jail.
- BY MARTA HEPLER DRAHOS mdrahos@record-eagle.com
Chaplain Tina McCalley wheels a cart loaded with softcover books and staple-less magazines down the narrow hallway of a women’s cell block.
- BY MICHAEL WALTON mwalton@record-eagle.com
EDITOR'S NOTE: Newsmakers 2014 profiles people, places and events that made news in the Grand Traverse region during the past year.
TRAVERSE CITY — Tight money and looming, major changes on the Grand Traverse County's governing board arrested a push by some county officials to build a new jail.
- BY MATT TROUTMAN mtroutman@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County’s jail capacity could shrink — at least on paper — if county officials embrace a recommendation to elimi…
- BY MICHAEL WALTON mwalton@record-eagle.com
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TRAVERSE CITY — A Grand Traverse County commissioner will question how the county pays for jail mental health services during a committee meeting set for Wednesday. Board members during the meeting will consider renewing a contract with Traverse City-based Nexus Family Services to provide substance abuse and life skills education programs to inmates.
- BY MATT TROUTMAN mtroutman@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — An inmate tried to kill himself at Grand Traverse County's jail by cutting his arm with a broken plastic spoon.
The consensus from a consulting firm and a circuit court judge on whether Grand Traverse County should spend tens of millions on a new jail ca…
- BY MICHAEL WALTON mwalton@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A consultants' report states local officials haven't collected enough information to justify their push to build an estimated …
- BY MICHAEL WALTON mwalton@record-eagle.com and MATT TROUTMAN , mtroutman@record-eagle.com
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TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County's sheriff backed off his efforts to bar potential media access to a jailed high-profile criminal defenda…
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To hear Grand Traverse County Sheriff Tom Bensley tell it, a Sheriff’s Department policy to sue to collect $20 daily housing fees from jail in…
- BY MICHAEL WALTON
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TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County is headed to court in an effort to collect money from county jail inmates.
- BY MICHAEL WALTON
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TRAVERSE CITY — Some Grand Traverse County officials appear eager to build a new multimillion-dollar jail, even before two federal jail consul…
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From the start, the conversation was more “could we?” than “must we?” More “can we?” than “do we absolutely have to?”
- BY MICHAEL WALTON
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TRAVERSE CITY — Several holding cells line the walls of Grand Traverse County jail’s intake area, well-suited places to house potentially suic…
- BY MICHAEL WALTON mwalton@record-eagle.com
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TRAVERSE CITY — At least one Grand Traverse County commissioner hopes officials take their time before deciding whether to build a new jail, a…
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Before Grand Traverse County officials expend a lot of time and energy toward justifying a new $30 million jail, they need to answer some esse…
- BY MATT TROUTMAN mtroutman@record-eagle.com
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TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County commissioners might dust off a decade-old proposal to build a new jail.
- BY MATT TROUTMAN mtroutman@record-eagle.com
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TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County sheriff’s deputies found a jail inmate who walked away from his work release two months ago.
- BY MATT TROUTMAN
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TRAVERSE CITY — Officials want to reduce inmate numbers in the Grand Traverse County jail before a population surge stretches the facility bey…
- BY GLENN PUIT
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Randy Woodcock takes prescribed methadone and morphine every day.
- BY ART BUKOWSKI
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A man who escaped from the Grand Traverse County jail earned more time there because of his breakout.
- BY ART BUKOWSKI
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The Grand Traverse County Jail's policies and procedures are under the microscope after a clever inmate posed as someone else and walked out t…
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An inmate who escaped from the Grand Traverse County Jail this afternoon has been captured.
- BY ART BUKOWSKI
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A man who died in jail had about twice the normal lethal dose of methadone in his system, reports indicate, but a doctor contracted by the jai…
- BY ART BUKOWSKI
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A man who died in the Grand Traverse County Jail had a high amount of methadone in his system, his mother said.
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The questions are many, the answers thus far few in the death of Danny Ray Whitney in a cell at the Grand Traverse County Jail.
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City police are investigating the death of an inmate at the Grand Traverse County Jail.
- BY BRIAN McGILLIVARY
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Grand Traverse County paid a private psychiatrist more than $20,000 a year for at least 7 years to provide services to jail inmates, despite a…
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- BY ART BUKOWSKI
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A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit tied to the death of a young woman who hanged herself in the Grand Traverse County jail.
- BY BRIAN McGILLIVARY
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Proposed preliminary budget cuts in Grand Traverse County would reduce public safety services but boost some county departments.
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Anne Avery-Miller's suicide in the Antrim County Jail was an end of sorts to a bizarre story that included her dead 16-year-old son, an allege…
- BY ART BUKOWSKI
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TRAVERSE CITY -- A federal judge won't grant a new trial after a former Grand Traverse Sheriff's Department employee sued the county and won a…
- BY BRIAN McGILLIVARY
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TRAVERSE CITY -- A lawsuit alleging medical malpractice by Grand Traverse County jail doctors and a nurse causing the death of an inmate can g…
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- By ART BUKOWSKI
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TRAVERSE CITY -- The mother of a young Kingsley woman who hanged herself in the Grand Traverse County Jail filed a federal lawsuit against the…
- By BRIAN McGILLIVARY
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County continues to pile up legal bills in a lost lawsuit, a chase that could lead to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- BY ART BUKOWSKI
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TRAVERSE CITY -- A federal judge denied a motion to dismiss a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former Grand Traverse County Sheriff's Depa…
- By ART BUKOWSKI
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TRAVERSE CITY -- The Grand Traverse County Jail will ban plastic and consider other new policies after a young woman attempted to suffocate he…
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TRAVERSE CITY -- They found Sarah Clark slumped in a segregated shower area in the Grand Traverse County Jail, unsupervised, water running, a …
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- BY ART BUKOWSKI AND BRIAN MCGILLIVARY
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TRAVERSE CITY -- A Kingsley woman who died after a suicide attempt in the Grand Traverse County Jail was on suicide watch "multiple times" dur…
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See related story GT County Jail inmate attempts suicide - March 1, 2008
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TRAVERSE CITY -- Attorneys representing the Grand Traverse County Sheriff's Department want answers from an ex-deputy who sued the department …
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TRAVERSE CITY A recent state inspection of the Grand Traverse County Jail showed it in 100 percent compliance for the sixth year in a row, d…
- By VICTOR SKINNER vskinner@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY Lisa Kirby believes Grand Traverse County sheriff's officials retaliated against her when she complained of sexual discriminat…
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TRAVERSE CITY — Three sergeants are among four Grand Traverse County sheriff's employees suspected in thefts of money from an inmate fund, but…
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TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse County Jail corrections officers are the prime suspects in an investigation into disappearances of more than $1…
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TRAVERSE CITY — Officials are hoping to query the public while deciding the next move - including a possible millage request - in a long-stall…