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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ezequiel Perez is charged with injury to a child. Perez has been booked into the Harris County Jail. HARRIS COUNTY, Texas - One man is facing charges in Harris County after being accused of ...

Ezequiel Perez is charged with injury to a child. Perez has been booked into the Harris County Jail. HARRIS COUNTY, Texas - One man is facing charges in Harris County after being accused of assaulting ...

A longtime law enforcement officer has been arrested as part of a theft investigation that has been going on for five months. The Precinct 7 deputy constable is accused of stealing from multiple ...

Then, some Howard County Sheriff’s Office deputies reached out. “Honestly, when they called to ask me to run for this position, I said, ‘No,’” Harris said. He thought about the children ...

How do people keep ending up in illegal boarding homes? Hospitals send them. Between 2022 and 2025, 184 have been shut down, but the sheriff's department says it's still an issue. Britney ...

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 ...

Three men were arrested Tuesday in connection to various crimes involving methamphetamine in Jefferson Township, according to the Cass County Sheriff's Office ... a home on Harris Street near ...