The Texas agency that oversees jail standards is heightening its response to Harris County's years-long struggle to meet ...

Officials with the office cited a pending criminal investigation in trying to shield information about Deven Ortiz.

Deputies with the Harris County Sheriff's Office joined officers from another department to search for a man they called a ...

Since falling out of compliance, the Harris County Jail has seen at least 55 inmate deaths, a gun smuggled inside, and inmates not receiving proper medication.

How do people keep ending up in illegal boarding homes? Hospitals send them. Between 2022 and 2025, 184 have been shut down, ...

Kristopher McGregor, 39, died Jan. 30 after being in custody at the Harris County Jail for less than a month. He had been ...

Harris County officials are investigating after a man with multiple gunshot wounds crashed into the gate of an apartment ...

Man arrested for murder after a fatal shooting in Atascocita-area home; deputies found victim with multiple gunshot wounds.

HOUSTON ( KIAH ) — The search for an inmate who escaped the Harris County Jail Complex has ended with his capture on Tuesday.

Deputies received a call of unsafe and unsanitary conditions at a home-based facility in southwest Harris County.

One of the prisoners died after being transferred to a private prison in Louisiana, an ongoing practice used to address ...

Officials said further investigation revealed that the child's father, Ezequiel Perez, assaulted the infant child multiple ...