The Texas agency overseeing jail standards will heighten its response to Harris County's years-long struggle to meet state ...

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

A 78-year-old criminal defense attorney accused of smuggling drug-laced documents to inmates in Harris County Jail died from ...

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.

A violent criminal suspect, wanted in two different Texas counties, has been arrested. It took a joint effort by law enforcement in different parts of the state to get him in cuffs.

A 39-year-old man died in a Houston hospital last week after suffering an unspecified medical emergency inside Harris County ...

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 ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations agents, working with other law enforcement ...

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

Harris County Sheriff's Office officials told ABC13 the escaped inmate somehow blended in with a group of people being ...

The Mexico native has been convicted of several crimes, including voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault with a weapon, ...