The three detention officers were each charged with misdemeanor assault and relieved of duty after an internal investigation, ...

Harris County approved a $1.25 million settlement in the 2021 jail killing of Fred Harris. The county admitted no wrongdoing in the agreement.

The civil rights lawsuit emerged in 2022, nearly a year after 19-year-old 98-pound Fred Harris was attacked and beaten to death inside a jail cell by an inmate nearly twice his size.

A new audit found the Harris County Sheriff's Office is allegedly not following state law. The Harris County Office of the ...

"According to this, none of the payments made during the period they examined were substantiated," said Todd Buikema, a ...

After conducting an internal investigation, HCSO said it relieved three detention officers of duty for assaulting an inmate ...

Twenty people died in 2025 in the Harris County Jail, the state's largest pre-trial detention system, which has faced years of understaffing, overcrowding and wrongful death lawsuits. The death toll ...

A kiosk for inmates to charge their cell phones upon their release from the jail is located in the re-entry services area of the jail, which closes at 5 p.m. during weekdays.

HOUSTON — Harris County commissioners approved hiring 131 additional jailers to help bring back more than 1,200 inmates from out-of-state facilities, but mothers who lost loved ones in custody argue ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The Houston Police Department is investigating an inmate's death, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office. Christopher Mendez, 47, suffered an apparent medical ...

HOUSTON, Texas – Houston police are investigating the death of an inmate who died at Ben Taub Hospital last week. On Wednesday, Dec. 17, 47-year-old Christopher Mendez was pronounced dead at Ben Taub ...