The Texas Commission on Jail Standards gave Dallas County a "clean inspection" with no corrective notes during its review Jan ...

Expansion and development in and around downtown Dallas have the county keeping quiet about future locations.

The Dallas County Jail this week passed a comprehensive state inspection for the second time in a row, a shift from recent ...

Dallas County’s $5 billion plans to construct a new jail could unlock one of the most prominent redevelopment sites in the city. County Judge Clay Jenkins said the county will begin moving forward in ...

Elías Valverde II / Staff Photographer The Dallas City Council agreed Wednesday to pay Dallas County for jail services after a monthlong delay and approved an $8.7 million annual contract for housing ...

County Judge Clay Jenkins says the current facility is facing overcrowding issues and has outlived its usefulness as it is nearly 50 years old. “I think we’ll have the land bought in ’26. And we’ve ...

Tamera Hutcherson is a Dallas-based community organizer who previously worked for the Texas Jail Project. She has written the op-ed below regarding Proposition 3, one of the 17 propositions on the Nov ...

Three years after an EF-2 tornado tore through Selma and caused major damage to the Dallas County Jail, the facility remains ...