Officials with the office cited a pending criminal investigation in trying to shield information about Deven Ortiz.

The Texas agency that oversees jail standards is heightening its response to Harris County's years-long struggle to meet ...

Since falling out of compliance, the Harris County Jail has seen at least 55 inmate deaths, a gun smuggled inside, and inmates not receiving proper medication.

Deputies with the Harris County Sheriff's Office joined officers from another department to search for a man they called a ...

How do people keep ending up in illegal boarding homes? Hospitals send them. Between 2022 and 2025, 184 have been shut down, ...

The city of Durango is dropping its lawsuits against La Plata County Sheriff Sean Smith and the La Plata County Board of County Commissioners over the county’s refusal to hold inmates sentenced ...

HOUSTON ( KIAH ) — The search for an inmate who escaped the Harris County Jail Complex has ended with his capture on Tuesday.

An inmate who escaped the Harris County Jail last week has been captured, according to an update from the sheriff's office on Tuesday. The video above is from the original report: Inmate wanted ...

A man wanted for murder in San Marcos was fired upon by Harris County deputies and taken into custody in Channelview on ...

About a month later, on Jan. 29, McGregor was brought to Ben Taub Hospital “for a medical emergency,” according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. He was declared dead at 6:41 p.m. Jan. 30.

Johnson has been charged with first-degree arson, conspiracy to commit a crime and insurance fraud, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested ...

Three men were arrested Tuesday in connection to various crimes involving methamphetamine in Jefferson Township, according to the Cass County ... within a home on Harris Street near M-62.