If you're too poor to afford a good lawyer in Houston's Harris County Jail in Texas, the odds are sorely stacked against you.

The charges for which a Young County correctional officer was arrested last week have been revealed as bribery and engaging ...

Maj. Blaine McGraw is being held in a Texas county jail “after apparently violating conditions of liberty imposed by his ...

A new Texas constitutional amendment takes effect Jan. 1, denying bail for serious offenses, sparking debate over community safety versus jail overcrowding.

TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) – A correctional officer with the Travis County Sheriff’s Office in Texas has been charged with bringing contraband items into the county’s correctional facility in Austin.

A detention officer in Texas' Ellis County was killed Monday in an attack by an inmate the sheriff describes as a "heinous, horrific, purposeful murder." In a press release, officials with the sheriff ...

A review of 54 lawsuits from across the country found that women who are incarcerated while pregnant face increased risks of ...

A Hood County jail nurse has been indicted on criminal charges for allegedly failing to obtain medical care for an inmate, ...

Debra Smith, right, whose daughter died in the Harris County Jail, speaks to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez after a Texas Commission on Jail Standards meeting Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025, in Austin.

AUSTIN — Members of a state-appointed commission on jail standards commended Harris County on Thursday for addressing long-standing detention officer staffing issues and making efforts to end inmate ...

CHICAGO -- Five months before she was found hanged in a Texas jail cell, Sandra Bland posted a video on the internet stating she had depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. "I'm suffering from ...

Yet for all the fortress-like construction, the jail became the setting for some of the most dramatic — and unlikely — escape ...