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 ...

Harris County authorities are asking for the public’s help to find the people responsible for three separate shootings ...

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

(The Center Square) – With early voting underway, Gov. Greg Abbott has been crisscrossing the state encouraging Texans to vote. At a GOTV event in Cypress, a suburb north of Houston, he vowed to turn ...

KATY, Texas – A woman was airlifted to a hospital Wednesday morning after officials said she was shot by her boyfriend in west Harris County moments before he turned the gun on himself. SEE ALSO: ‘She ...

Harris County Commissioner Tom Ramsey wants to crack down on panhandling. The Republican commissioner is pushing for action on panhandling, bringing a proposal to Commissioners Court to consider new ...

David Emsley Wheeles The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that David Emsley Wheeles was taken into custody in the Villa Rosa Road area on Tuesday morning. CARROLL COUNTY, Ga. — A Georgia ...

Barbed wired fencing guides a path to a Kirkland Correctional Institution dorm in Columbia, SC. Gavin McIntyre [email protected] The longest-serving inmate on death row in South Carolina died of ...

A 33-year-old Duval County jail inmate died by suicide Friday morning in his isolation cell, Sheriff Romeo Ramirez confirmed. Israel Hinojosa of San Diego was found unresponsive in his cell at 11:25 a ...