Two Polk County jailers are recovering after authorities said they were stabbed by an inmate Saturday afternoon.[DOWNLOAD: ...

Two Polk County Jail staff members were sent to the hospital on Saturday after an inmate stabbed them, according to the ...

Two deputies were sent to the hospital after an inmate attacked them with a homemade weapon at Polk County Jail.

Alan Alderman and Thornton Arnold were arrested in Polk County on Friday, May 30, 2025, after six dogs were found amid “deplorable” conditions inside a 107-degree home that lacked power and ...

Images taken inside Polk County Animal Control are going viral after a local woman says the pictures she took show animals living in questionable conditions.

The Sheriff's Office said Cuevas had images and videos of children as young as 4 being sexually battered. He is being held in Polk County Jail on $155,000 bond.

Polk County is paying $86,000 to the family of a detainee who died by suicide in the county jail four years ago, according to settlement documents.

A man was sentenced to two and a half years in prison on Monday for an attack against corrections officers at the Polk County Jail last March.

According to a media release from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, on Oct. 30, around 1:00 a.m., Polk County Corrections Officers discovered an inmate in his cell unconscious and not breathing ...

POLK COUNTY, Texas — Three Polk County jailers have been arrested after an inmate was reportedly assaulted inside Polk County Jail.

Three jailers who work at the Polk County Jail have been arrested, accused of assaulting a 34-year-old inmate from Kingwood inside of the jail.

A man filed a federal lawsuit against sheriff’s deputies, saying he was intentionally denied medical care at the Polk County Jail in Florida. Saad Chaudhry via Unsplash At a Florida jail, a man ...