The Texas agency that oversees jail standards is heightening its response to Harris County's years-long struggle to meet ...

Officials with the office cited a pending criminal investigation in trying to shield information about Deven Ortiz.

Since falling out of compliance, the Harris County Jail has seen at least 55 inmate deaths, a gun smuggled inside, and inmates not receiving proper medication.

The family of a man who died in the custody of the Harris County Jail last month, is teaming up with others to raise their concerns about standards within Texas’ largest jail to the Office of the ...

How do people keep ending up in illegal boarding homes? Hospitals send them. Between 2022 and 2025, 184 have been shut down, ...

A 38-year-old former Harris County Precinct 4 deputy, who was out on bond for murder, has picked up five new felony charges for violent crimes.

A violent criminal suspect, wanted in two different Texas counties, has been arrested. It took a joint effort by law enforcement in different parts of the state to get him in cuffs.

Kristopher McGregor, 39, died Jan. 30 after being in custody at the Harris County Jail for less than a month. He had been ...

Officials said further investigation revealed that the child's father, Ezequiel Perez, assaulted the infant child multiple ...

Deputies received a call of unsafe and unsanitary conditions at a home-based facility in southwest Harris County.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations agents, working with other law enforcement ...

Harris County Sheriff's Office officials told ABC13 the escaped inmate somehow blended in with a group of people being ...