HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Millions of dollars are going toward improving security and safety at the Harris County Jail ... The answer could also be a new jail. County employees will tour other ...

Harris County's next step in addressing its overcrowded, understaffed jail may be building a facility to provide mental health services to those awaiting trial, but jail reform activists say it ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Harris County commissioners will consider spending more than $100 million on jail improvements at a time when they're considering building a new facility. The Harris ...

The elevator of the Harris County ... in jail. Once stabilized and released, they still don’t have access to medication, so they relapse and end up in jail again. Everything old is new again.

Read full article: LIVE: Harris County to dedicate downtown building in honor ... morning to outline progress and new programs aimed at reducing the county’s jail population and getting people ...

As for the juvenile crowding, commissioners are considering renovating the top five floors of the former adult jail at 1301 Franklin as well as building the new facility in Atascocita. The county ...

The Harris County Jail in Houston. The county’s new bail system only targets misdemeanor crimes, where the longest sentence possible if convicted is a year. Credit: Michael Stravato for The ...