The Tarrant County sheriff’s office on Thursday announced its second in-custody death of 2025. A 56-year-old inmate died Tuesday while under medical care at John Peter Smith Hospital, according ...

An inmate in custody of the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office died this week at a local hospital, officials confirmed. The ...

Commissioner Alisa Simmons said she wanted the court to be briefed on compassionate release because of concerns over an ...

A man whose death in the Tarrant County jail in December led to several disruptions at county meetings earlier this year died ...

Jail advocates and attorneys said the interpretation provides sheriff’s offices with a scapegoat opportunity to evade ...

A woman who died in the Tarrant County jail in February “essentially starved to death” after not being fed according to her dietary restrictions, her family said. Kimberly Phillips, 56, died ...

Julia Falcon is a digital content producer at CBS News Texas. Julia has previously written for news outlets across Dallas-Fort Worth like the Denton Record-Chronicle, D Magazine, 1080 KRLD and 105 ...

The Tarrant County Commissioners Court voted to allocate up to $30,000 in additional legal fees for a 2024 jail death lawsuit.

A 13-year-old brain cancer patient is one agency closer to setting a world record after being sworn in as an honorary Sheriff ...

The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office blamed a “clerical error” for its failure to comply with a state law requiring it to file a report with the Texas Attorney General’s Office on the death ...

AUSTIN — A yearslong spike of in-custody deaths in the Tarrant County Jail could come under scrutiny by the Texas Legislature with a bipartisan pair of bills filed by Tarrant County House ...