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

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

The package of bills would tighten the state's bail laws to keep more people in jail — including undocumented immigrants — ...

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.

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

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 within Texas’ largest jail to the Office of the ...

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

A 38-year-old former Harris County Precinct 4 deputy, who was out on bond for murder, has picked up five new felony charges for violent crimes.

A violent criminal suspect, wanted in two different Texas counties, has been arrested. It took a joint effort by law enforcement in different parts of the state to get him in cuffs.

Members of the Texas Senate's Criminal Justice Committee heard testimony Wednesday on five bail-related bills aimed at ...

Yes, we just got over a major election and yes, politicians are already campaigning for an election a year away.

The Mexico native has been convicted of several crimes, including voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault with a weapon, ...