A detention officer checks cells at the Tarrant County Jail in Fort Worth last year. A recent audit found that the Texas ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - What began as a routine traffic infraction for 33-year-old Robert Allen Movrich quickly escalated into a ...

A 36-year-old Texas woman is being held on felony stalking charges in a bizarre case where a wedding was held without the groom present and without his knowledge.

Webb County accepted a federal grant worth more than $113,000 to offset jail costs for undocumented immigrants held in ...

Two men have been arrested in connection with a scheme to steal oriented strand boards (OSB) from a Polk County manufacturer.

Two women who were arrested for minor traffic violations and funneled into immigration detention — despite living here legally — have been released from ICE custody in Texas and are back with their ...

POLK COUNTY, Ga. — A former Polk County Sheriff's Office employee was arrested and accused of DUI on Saturday, according to Sheriff Johnny Moats. The sheriff stated in a Facebook post that the ...

Thongxay Nilakout, a citizen of Laos, shot and killed a German tourist in Southern California in 1994 when he was 17. He was convicted of shooting and killing Gisela Pfleger and wounding her husband ...

POLK COUNTY, Texas (KETK) — In Texas, each county jail requires a minimum ratio of one guard for every 48 inmates. For Polk County, that is not enough. Sheriff Byron Lyons says, like many other jails ...

In Texas, each county jail requires a minimum ratio of one guard for every 48 inmates. For Polk County, that is not enough. Visit this article to learn more: <a href ...

POLK COUNTY, Texas — An East Texas jail says they've been forced to house inmates out of state due to ongoing staffing shortages. According to Polk County Sheriff Byron Lyons, some inmates that ...

inmates last month were relocated to other contracted facilities after the state ordered the jail’s operations to be immediately suspended. “Like many other county jails across Texas, Polk ...