The Texas agency overseeing jail standards will heighten its response to Harris County's years-long struggle to meet state ...

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.

The 78-year-old attorney who was accused of smuggling drug-laced papers into the Harris County Jail has died. According to ABC13's news partners at the Houston Chronicle, Ronald Lewis died of ...

Another prisoner has died while in custody at the Harris County Jail, marking the third reported death so far this year. Kristopher McGregor, 39, was booked into the downtown Houston jail Jan. 2 ...

Read full article: Inmate death leads to sweeping bill for major changes inside Harris County Jail After quickly moving through the House, a Bill that would bring forth major changes inside the ...

Harris County Sheriff's Office leadership is trying to keep quiet on email conversations they had with Houston Police Department ahead of the hiring of a former police officer at the center of ...

A 39-year-old man died in a Houston hospital last week after experiencing an unspecified medical emergency inside Harris County Jail. Kristopher McGregor died on Jan. 30, according to the Harris ...

was arrested Thursday and booked into the Harris County Jail. Pritchett, 26, is facing two charges of aggravated kidnapping and was being held in the jail on a combined $200,000 bond, according to ...

The sheriff's office said Perez and the ex-girlfriend recently broke up and their relationship had been abusive. Perez was arrested on a capital murder charge and booked into the Harris County ...

Erik Carlson, 29, died on Jan. 25, less than a week after he was transferred by the Harris County Sheriff’s Office to a privately owned correctional facility in LaSalle Parish in central ...