What was meant to be a solution to overcrowding at the Tarrant County Jail became its own problem. The county had been paying a contractor to keep an overflow of inmates to the Giles W.

On Tuesday, commissioners discussed the latest inmate's death at the Tarrant County jail. 31-year-old Mason Yancy died in late December following a medical emergency in his jail cell. Tarrant ...

She was then transferred to the Tarrant County jail a day later and placed under medical observation, the news release said. She was sent to the hospital on Feb. 15 before dying three days later ...