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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's ...
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 ...
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 ...
Two months after the Harris County Jail corralled a COVID-19 outbreak that sickened more than 1,000 inmates and killed two, Sheriff’s Office officials said they face a new threat: arrestees who ...
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 ...
The 27 deaths recorded by the Harris County Jail is higher than the number of deaths tallied by New York's widely criticized ... pay raise needs to go into building counseling centers in certain ...
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — Harris County Jail videos obtained by KHOU 11 Investigates raised new questions about what happened to an inmate that left him in a coma. Adael Gonzalez Garcia was booked ...
FILE: A Harris County sheriff’s deputy outside a YES Prep charter school campus in southwest Houston on Oct. 1, 2021. The Harris County Sheriff's Office announced that they have selected 20 ...
Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare held a news conference Thursday morning to outline progress and new programs aimed at reducing the county’s jail population and getting people into ...