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

So far in 2025, as many as 12 inmates have died while in custody in Harris County Jail, surpassing the total number of 10 in all of 2024.

Eleven people have died while in custody in Harris County so far in 2025, that’s more than all of last year, according to online records.

Criminal Justice Harris County Jail officials didn’t search inmate’s wheelchair containing handgun, state report says. According to the report, state inspectors reviewed security footage and ...

Three Harris County Jail inmates died in custody within a 48-hour period last month. While the circumstances surrounding ...

Records state the inmates were throwing up gang signs, and Lee said he didn't feel safe. He was taken to a holding center, but at 3 p.m., he was told he had to go to the unit.

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — Harris County Jail videos obtained by KHOU 11 Investigates raised new questions about what happened to an inmate that left him in a coma. Adael Gonzalez Garcia was booked ...

State records show Harris County's daily jail population averaged more than 9,100 inmates through the first 10 months of 2006. Sixteen percent of those inmates — more than 1,400 — have what ...

“When he first entered the jail as an inmate with $200 in his commissary and from October 2023 to June 2024, he was able to make a revenue of over $28,000,” Smith explained.

This year, there have been 673 assaults on Harris County Jail staff and 2,153 inmate-on-inmate assaults, records show. One county organization has been trying to do something about this since 2021.