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PublishedNovember 25, 2024
Former Somerset County Jail official charged with domestic violence
Cameron Arcidi, who has pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor-level charges, was fired in September.
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PublishedOctober 2, 2024
Fairfield man sentenced to 5 years for assaulting officers at Somerset County Jail
William J. Douglass Jr., 39, pleaded guilty to several charges for the assaults, and to charges that he damaged a communication device from a Somerset County Sheriff’s Office vehicle.
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PublishedSeptember 23, 2024
Update: ‘Nothing suspicious’ about death of Somerset County Jail inmate, state police say
A Somerset County Sheriff's Office official has identified the inmate found dead inside her cell late Friday as Amber Marie Mills, 29.
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PublishedSeptember 21, 2024
Police investigate death of Somerset jail inmate
State police are investigating the death of a woman who was incarcerated at Somerset County Jail in Madison.
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PublishedJune 4, 2024
Federal lawsuit alleges wrongful death of Somerset County Jail inmate who died from drug exposure
The lawsuit, filed four days before a similar complaint regarding a jail inmate who died by suicide, alleges that Mitchell Watson of Dexter was exposed to lethal drugs inside the Madison jail and was not given proper medical attention.
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PublishedMay 31, 2024
Committee, commissioners OK Somerset County budget, overall 3.1% tax increase for 2024-25
The increase comes after taxpayers were hit with a 9.8% increase last year, due largely to an increase in wages and inflation in the costs of materials and services, according to officials.
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PublishedMay 30, 2024
Mother of Somerset County Jail inmate who died by suicide files lawsuit over ‘reckless and conscious disregard’
The mother of a Somerset County Jail inmate who died by suicide in the Madison jail two years ago has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the county, sheriff and jail officials failed to provide adequate mental and physical health care to inmate Virgil White, of Athens, who was suffering from mental illness.
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PublishedMay 28, 2024
Somerset County residents to review proposed budget with overall 3.1% tax increase
Residents can comment on the budget at a public hearing Wednesday evening, which is expected to be followed by a vote to approve or modify the budget by the Budget Committee and then the Board of Commissioners.
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PublishedFebruary 19, 2024
From arrest to recovery: Somerset County Jail unlocks new hope for addiction treatment
Brock Peters, 29, credits an arrest at the height of his opioid addiction with saving his life. After detoxing at the jail, he became part of a pilot program to treat opioid addiction in a different way.
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PublishedOctober 24, 2023
Somerset County Jail paid 140 correctional officers $133,000 in overtime case
The jail violated their labor rights from 2017-19, when administrators paid correctional officers less overtime wages than they were entitled to per federal labor laws.
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