Nearly 1,300 Harris County inmates are awaiting trial in out-of-state private facilities due to chronic overcrowding and ...

Harris County Harris County Sheriff’s Office to work on bringing back outsourced inmates as jail population dips. Crediting recent efforts by the district attorney’s office to more quickly ...

A federal lawsuit has been filed against Harris County Jail and several of its officers, alleging a brutal 2023 assault on a ...

Two Harris County Jail inmates died just days apart. ... According to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, Jose Jorge Cisneros, 52, died at 5:44 a.m. May 27 at LBJ Hospital.

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- Another inmate has died after suffering a medical emergency in the Harris County Jail, the sheriff's office said. Based on previous reporting from ABC13, this is the ...

Preliminary information indicated Long was among several inmates who smoked an "unknown substance" around 12:30 a.m. on the day of his death, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office.

One in 10 inmates in Texas' Harris County Jail has an ICE hold, totaling 1,170 of the 9,527 inmates. These holds are costing taxpayers as the cases proceed through the court system.

HOUSTON — Three Harris County Sheriff's Office detention officers have been indicted for assault with bodily injury after an inmate suffered a severe head injury in 2022. John Ziesemer, 56 ...

Criminal Justice Attorneys for Harris County and its sheriff argue they weren’t responsible for outsourced jail inmate’s death. The family of Jaleen Anderson, a 29-year-old man who died at a ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – A sergeant with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office has filed a lawsuit against Harris County and an inmate after she was sexually assaulted at a jail in 2021 ...

The federal lawsuit claims Harris County Jail officers assaulted inmate Anasia Smith, who sought damages for civil rights ...

HOUSTON — Three Harris County Sheriff's Office detention officers have been indicted for assault with bodily injury after an inmate suffered a severe head injury in 2022. John Ziesemer, 56 ...