But a few counties have tried to help those in need, and Tarrant County is next. On May 11, county officials announced they want to open a mental health jail diversion center. Its goal will be to ...

Tarrant County will fund its Jail Diversion Center through at least September 2025, filling a funding gap that would have left the program without money by the spring. The diversion center is a ...

Tarrant County’s proposed budget for next fiscal year doesn't include funding for the Mental Health Jail Diversion Center, but officials are looking for money to keep the program going.

Currently, criminal misdemeanor trespass is the only eligible offense for a detained person to be taken to the Mental Health Jail Diversion Center instead of being booked into the Tarrant County Jail.

Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn ... appropriate for a rehab center or a hospital or a treatment center. But this is the county jail, and our methods are the safest way to detox inmates ...

A Tarrant County Jail inmate whose mother says shouldn ... has been released and transferred to a state supported living center. Kai’Yere Campbell, 21, was incarcerated for six months at ...

A medical emergency at the Tarrant County Correction Center ended in the death of an inmate Sunday, the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office (TCSO) said. Just before 9:00 a.m. Sunday, routine cell ...

Related: Autopsy: Tarrant County jail inmate death ruled homicide by ... Johnson’s family members spoke outside the criminal justice center. Janell Johnson, his sister, called out Tarrant ...

Dalby Correctional Center in Garza County, south of Lubbock, will return to Fort Worth in September. To accommodate the returning inmates, Tarrant County leaders aim to expedite renovations at the ...

The jail commission confirmed earlier this month that the three minutes are missing and requested the Sheriff’s Office ...

Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown speaks after the Texas Commission on Jail Standards announces to Dallas County commissioners and Sheriff's Department that the Dallas County Jail passed an ...