Alexis Jovany Cardenas, 32, died Tuesday after an alleged altercation with detention officers while on his way out of the ...

A former Harris County deputy Tuesday was indicted on misdemeanor assault charges over accusations that he beat two inmates, one of whom was handcuffed, while he worked at the Harris County Jail ...

For nearly three years, hundreds of Harris County jail inmates have been sent to out-of-state facilities, as part of an effort to keep the local jail population down and in compliance with state ...

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 ...

Harris County working on shorter jail booking time after some defendants delayed for days By Nicole Hensley , Staff writer Oct 5, 2022 An inmate mops a hallway floor inside the Harris County Jail ...

There were about 8,000 inmates being held in Harris County as of Thursday morning and about 1,000 being held in the outsourced facilities, according to the jail's public data dashboard.

The family of the sixth Harris County Jail detainee to die in custody so far this year says Robert Terry, 32, was healthy before he was booked into the jail. Terry was booked into Harris County ...

HOUSTON — The official order releasing roughly 1,000 Harris County Jail inmates became effective Wednesday at 2 p.m. In the order, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo ordered Sheriff Ed Gonzalez to ...