The three detention officers were each charged with misdemeanor assault and relieved of duty after an internal investigation, ...

The Harris County Sheriff's Office is being sued over a 2025 in-custody death at the Harris County jail. ABC13 previously ...

Harris County approved a $1.25 million settlement in the 2021 jail killing of Fred Harris. The county admitted no wrongdoing in the agreement.

Hours after Houston police announced that a suspect had been arrested and charged in a murder earlier this week, KPRC 2 News ...

Alexis Cardenas died July 8 after an altercation with detention officers who were attempting to escort him out of the jail.

The civil rights lawsuit emerged in 2022, nearly a year after 19-year-old 98-pound Fred Harris was attacked and beaten to death inside a jail cell by an inmate nearly twice his size.

A kiosk for inmates to charge their cell phones upon their release from the jail is located in the re-entry services area of the jail, which closes at 5 p.m. during weekdays.

The family of Fred Harris, a 19-year-old with intellectual disabilities murdered by a cellmate in the Harris County jail in ...

Twenty people died in 2025 in the Harris County Jail, the state's largest pre-trial detention system, which has faced years of understaffing, overcrowding and wrongful death lawsuits. The death toll ...

Harris County commissioners want proposals brought to them ahead of the next budget cycle to address the jail's mental health ...

Three Harris County detention officers have been charged after allegedly being involved in an incident that caused bodily ...