Essex jail supervisor sexually harassed me at work, corrections officer says in suit Published: Aug. 25, 2022, 11:06 a.m. File photo of the Essex County Jail on Doremus Avenue in Newark.

Reports of violence and egregious conditions at the Essex County jail are not new. When the jail still contracted with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2019, the Office of the Inspector ...

The Essex County jail in Middleton — a sprawling facility not far from Boston’s wealthy northern suburbs — stands out among others in the state for its history of violence and turmoil.

Essex County officials have placed 78 inmates in quarantine at the county jail in Newark where six corrections officers and a federal immigration detainee have tested positive for COVID-19.

A group of inmates at the Essex County Correctional Facility nearly beat a mentally ill inmate to death in September in a savage assault captured by the jail's security cameras, an attorney for ...

The Essex County Sheriff’s Department reported Thursday that 13 inmates, three guards and one contractor have tested positive for the coronavirus. A day earlier the total number was eight.

On Oct. 22, a fight erupted in the Middleton House of Correction, also known as the Essex County Jail and House of Corruption. Four people were injured and treated at a local hospital the same day.

The caught-on-camera beatdown at the Essex County Correctional Facility happened September 23, 2021. Essex County Correctional Facili. The footage from inside the lockup also clearly showed a lack ...