For the third time in eight years, Whatcom County voters will be asked to pay ... social services and former jail inmates. In prepared remarks to the council after a two-hour public hearing ...

Whatcom County Facilities Management and ... We are trying to mitigate the situation by reducing the jail population through an expansion of booking restrictions and where possible, transfers ...

Ten inmates at the Whatcom County Jail’s Work Center on Division Street in Bellingham have tested positive for COVID-19, the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office announced Wednesday. They represent ...

BELLINGHAM — The Whatcom County sheriff says a handful of county jail inmates used metal ductwork ripped from crumbling walls to smash windows and pry off locks in a riot that caused about $ ...

To alleviate the congestion, Whatcom has been renting out jail cells at the Yakima County Department of Corrections and sends some of their inmates there. “We just don’t have sufficient space ...

Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office employees ... myriad problems caused by an overcrowded and rapidly aging county jail facility — including the leak of shower water and raw sewage from the ...

on suspicion of smuggling drugs into the jail. The investigation began April 17 when detectives with the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office were advised that several inmates were in possession of ...

A drug problem at the Whatcom County Jail has prompted the sheriff to ask ... was charged in June with supplying drugs to two other inmates, one of whom died of an overdose. Following the jail ...

BELLINGHAM — A man was arrested after corrections deputies reportedly uncovered a plot to smuggle tobacco to inmates inside the Whatcom County Jail. “This case highlights the ongoing vigilance ...

A group of dangerous inmates rioted in the maximum security unit at the Whatcom County Jail on Wednesday, police said. The six inmates dismantled the ventilation system and used metal components ...

Since 2008, at least eight inmates have died in the Whatcom County Jail – four of them by suicide. At least three of the inmates who died were Native American, according to reports on the deaths.