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The sheriff's office tells ABC13 that all three inmates died at a hospital and the cases have been reported to the Texas ...
The string of deaths comes weeks after the sheriff’s office reported that a 26-year-old inmate was pronounced dead after ...
Pate, 35, was among three jail inmates who died within a 48-hour span last week. There have been a total of 10 in-custody ...
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 ...
More than 190 inmates were transferred while Sheriff Ed Gonzalez and other officials come up with a corrective plan after inspectors found the jail was in violation.
Kaitlin Armstrong, 34 (Austin Police Department, Harris County Sheriff’s Office) Photos from travelers at the airport show Armstrong back on U.S. soil. Armstrong is seen wearing a blue long ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sheriff Adrian Garcia on Friday repeated his call for a new jail and booking center to reduce overcrowding in Harris County's downtown lockups. The county has about 11,500 inmates in jails ...
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.
Texas Commission on Jail Standards inspectors pointed out 64 people who spend more than the maximum of 48 hours in the booking area's holding cells. The Harris County Sheriff's Office has 30 days ...