WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) -The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office announced the death of an inmate on Friday. The sheriff’s office said EMS was called to the Sedgwick County Jail on Thursday to take ...

Major changes are coming to how inmates at the Sedgwick County Adult Detention Facility communicate with the outside world.

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office has identified the inmate who died at the jail Wednesday morning as 24-year-old Daitrez J. Birch. The sheriff’s office said Birch ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A Sedgwick County detention deputy has been charged with misdemeanor battery after being accused of punching an inmate multiple times. The sheriff’s office said on April ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The number of inmates in the Sedgwick County jail is at a 20-year low. The jail can house 1,407 people. As of Friday, July 5th, the average daily population was 1,092 inmates.

Sedgwick County Sheriff Tom Hanna was accused of taking a hand-cuffed, developmentally disabled inmate to his home, where he allegedly coerced her to take off her clothes, sexually assaulted her ...

A Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office detention deputy was sent to the hospital Monday evening with serious burns after an inmate allegedly threw scalding hot water at them, SCSO public information ...

An inmate at the Sedgwick County Jail who suffered chronic medical issues died while in custody on Saturday afternoon. Sean C. Decker, who was being held on felony charges, became unresponsive in ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) – The Sedgwick County Jail has banned hot pots in its Adult Detention Facility after a deputy was attacked by an inmate with boiling water last week. Sedgwick County Sheriff ...

Four inmates at Sedgwick County Jail are expected to recover after a suspected opioid overdose, according to the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office. EMS took the men to the hospital around 12:30 p ...

Sedgwick County — with a population around 2,500 ... How did their top law enforcement man end up in an orange inmate jumpsuit, with a prosecutor describing him as a potential threat to ...