Erie County comptroller tells county legislators to pause Sheriff John Garcia’s pitch for a $428 million jail campus in Alden.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The site of the Erie County Correctional Facility in Alden has been chosen as the site for a consolidated county jail, rather than keeping two facilities, Erie County said ...

Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - Months after the launch of an Operational Needs Assessment into the Erie County Holding Center and Erie County Correctional Facility, the results recommend a renovated and ...

If money were no object, Erie County leaders would love to have one modern jail facility, not two outdated ones half an hour apart. And they would love to build a new jail at the downtown location ...

Hello! I cover the Northtowns for 7 News WKBW. If you have a story idea, please email me at [email protected] BUFFALO, NY (WKBW) — Erie County is proposing to consolidate its jails and build a ...

A state commission investigating Ralph "Bucky" Phillips' escape from the Erie County Correctional Facility concludes that the Alden jail is overcrowded and badly understaffed and that the Sheriff's ...

An inmate who was in Erie County's Community Works Program was serving sentence for conviction for pistol-whipping a woman, according to records Erie Times-News obtained in Right-to-Know case. Erie ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — A chief with the Erie County Sheriff's Office will not spend any time behind bars after admitting he was responsible for a string of hit-and-run crashes. Chief Daniel "DJ" ...