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The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office recently hired Dallas County’s former top jail official to run Tarrant County’s jail system amid scrutiny over a spike in jail deaths. And he's getting a ...
The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office is conducting a state-mandated investigation into a recent in-custody death at the Dallas County Jail. The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office is leading an ...
Critical Incident Inspector Wendy Wisneski is at left and at right is Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown. (Ashley Landis) Tarrant County’s new jail chief brings with him commendations from his ...
TARRANT COUNTY, Texas — The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office recently hired Dallas County’s former top jail official to run Tarrant County’s jail system amid scrutiny over a spike in jail ...
What was meant to be a solution to overcrowding at the Tarrant County Jail became its own problem ... delivered to you every morning with NBC DFW's News Headlines newsletter.
(Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer) Dallas County’s top jail official has left after just under two years in the role to run Tarrant County’s jail system, officials announced Monday.
The case is the first instance of a person being tried and convicted for murder in Tarrant County under a new Texas law that ...
left Dallas last month to become Tarrant County’s day-to-day operations jail administrator. The Chief Deputy who helped improve Dallas County jail enough to pass recent jail inspections recently ...
Tarrant County recently hired a new chief to oversee the jail system. Shannon Herklotz previously worked for the Dallas County Sheriff's Office and the Texas Commission on Jail Standards.
Disturbing allegations are coming to light about a federal employee forcing his pregnant girlfriend to have an abortion she ...
As of April 2023, there had been 54 deaths in the last five years in the Tarrant County Jail. In nearby counties ... there were about 63 deaths and in Dallas County there were 44 deaths.