Though commissioners recognized the county jail's improvements and efforts to reduce the total inmate population, its ...

The Texas Rangers are investigating after a 52-year-old Harris County Jail inmate died on Tuesday. It marks the sixth in-custody death reported this year. Jose Jorge Cisneros was transported from the ...

Nearly 1,300 Harris County inmates are awaiting trial in out-of-state private facilities due to chronic overcrowding and understaffing at Harris County Jail, according to new data from the sheriff's ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Ga. (WRBL) — Harris County officials announced on Tuesday that an inmate who walked away from a work camp site was back in custody. According to Harris County officials, at ...

In Texas, 75% of proposed constitutional amendments have been passed by voters since 1876, while five previous amendments ...

New allegations are detailed in a lawsuit claiming a Houston man was beaten to death by guards in a private Louisiana jail.

An escaped Harris County Prison inmate was taken back into custody after a resident saw him naked and flagging down vehicles, according to authorities. The Criminal Investigations Division of the ...

An inmate who was mistakenly released from the Harris County Jail was arrested Thursday in southeast Florida after a days-long manhunt. Troy Dugas, 36, was captured in Fort Lauderdale after he was ...