Phone calls claiming to be law enforcement warrant division telling you there's an urgent matter that needs your immediate ...

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.

Eric Latroy Brown, 40, is charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault and one count of aggravated robbery after a student was attacked around 5:30 p.m. last Friday.

Opponents of the bail reform package say the proposed changes are based on false pretenses and could unjustly keep innocent ...

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

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

The family of a man who died in the custody of the Harris County Jail last month, is teaming up with others to raise their concerns about standards within Texas’ largest jail to the Office of the ...

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.

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

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.

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