Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn defended the conditions at the county jail during a heated public forum Thursday night. Waybourn and six other panelists fielded questions and criticism about ...

Read the latest in our coverage of the Tarrant County jail. Tarrant County Commissioner Alisa Simmons expressed her support for a call for Sheriff Bill Waybourn’s resignation while speaking with ...

TARRANT COUNTY — The Tarrant County Sheriff is defending his jail amid protests and calls for change from community members at Tarrant County Commissioners Court on Tuesday. The contentious ...

Tarrant County Commissioners gave their unofficial support to renovating the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office training center, instead of the original plan to build a new academy at a higher cost.

The Tarrant County sheriff’s office on Thursday announced its second in-custody death of 2025. A 56-year-old inmate died Tuesday while under medical care at John Peter Smith Hospital ...

TARRANT COUNTY, Texas — Activists angered by the Tarrant County sheriff’s management of the county jail are calling for his resignation. United My Justice held a press conference Tuesday ...

Since Tarrant County sheriff Bill Waybourn took office in 2017, 65 people have died while in custody at the county’s jail. The deaths have drawn scrutiny from the public and local politicians ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Amid calls for transparency after a spike in jail deaths, the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office has hired someone to fill the executive jail administrator position. Shannon ...

Republican Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn has won a third term. Sheriff Waybourn has faced intense backlash over high-profile deaths at his jail. His opponent, Democrat Patrick Moses ...