A former Harris County jail guard was sentenced to one year of deferred adjudication, months after he was indicted on ...

For four days, deputies from the Harris County Sheriff’s Office barred entry to Evan Lee’s hospital room. By the time his mother, Jacilet Griffin, was allowed inside, doctors told her he was ...

So far in 2025, as many as 12 inmates have died while in custody in Harris County Jail, surpassing the total number of 10 in all of 2024.

The Harris County Sheriff’s Office is working on a plan to begin bringing outsourced jail inmates back to the state as the Harris County Jail sees a recent dip in its population. Crediting recent ...

Two more inmates died inside the Harris County Jail this week, according to a spokesperson for the Harris County Sheriff’s ...

As of Friday, more than 7,200 prisoners were being housed at the Harris County Jail. Credit: Photo by April Towery Thirty-two year-old Ashley Gutierrez was taken to the Harris County Jail in the early ...

Kerry Parks, 63, and Tony Davis, 66, died Wednesday after they both experienced apparent medical emergencies inside the jail, ...

Texas commissioners overseeing jail standards questioned an apparent lack of effort by the Harris County Sheriff’s Office to bring home more than a thousand inmates outsourced to Louisiana and ...