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.

A week after a student said she was violently raped at knifepoint in a UH parking garage, suspect Eric Latroy Brown is still ...

Kristopher McGregor, 39, died Jan. 30 after being in custody at the Harris County Jail for less than a month. He had been ...

The Harris County Jail has failed yet another state safety inspection after the recent death of a prisoner was tied to a lapse in observational rounds. Inspectors with the Texas Commission on Jail ...

HOUSTON ( KIAH ) — The search for an inmate who escaped the Harris County Jail Complex has ended with his capture on Tuesday. Travis Bryant II turned himself in to Harris County deputies a week after ...

Start by owning your Microsoft apps HOUSTON – The family of a man who died in the custody of the Harris County Jail last month, is teaming up with others to raise their concerns about standards ...

TARRANT COUNTY, Texas — The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office recently hired Dallas County’s former top jail official to run Tarrant County’s jail system amid scrutiny over a spike in jail ...