The announcement at a Texas Commission on Jail Standards meeting in Austin on Thursday morning was met with applause from the ...

Though commissioners recognized the county jail's improvements and efforts to reduce the total inmate population, its ...

As of Friday, more than 7,200 prisoners were being housed at the Harris County Jail. Credit: Photo by April Towery Thirty-two year-old Ashley Gutierrez was taken to the Harris County Jail in the early ...

Samuel Jason Jones, 53, was arrested at his home and taken to the Jasper County Jail after investigators secured a warrant ...

For the second time this year, a clerical error at the county jail in Houston has led to the accidental release of an inmate facing felony charges, authorities said ...

A manhunt is underway after 36-year-old Troy Dugas, an inmate at the Harris County Jail, seen here in this undated police photo, was accidentally released from prison on Aug. 17, according to the ...

A pair of Texas prison guards were fired and arrested after allegedly leaving an inmate to die locked inside a burning and smoke-filled cell, according to reports. Lieutenant William Eugene Romero, 33 ...