The announcement at a Texas Commission on Jail Standards meeting in Austin on Thursday morning was met with applause from the ...
Though commissioners recognized the county jail's improvements and efforts to reduce the total inmate population, its ...
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 ...
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 ...
In Texas, 75% of proposed constitutional amendments have been passed by voters since 1876, while five previous amendments ...
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 ...
New allegations are detailed in a lawsuit claiming a Houston man was beaten to death by guards in a private Louisiana jail.