Jails are overrun with people on drugs, struggling with mental illness and poor health. How are sheriffs handling the challenges?

After several meetings since June on the possibilities for a new jail, the Fond du Lac County Jail Ad Hoc Committee released ...

This area was one that had malfunctioning locks on the cells, which allowed inmates to roam their pods freely. Fans in the hallways pushed around the air, making it slightly cooler. Inside the Shelby ...

Fans in the hallway between jail pods on the lower level of the Shelby County Jail dry the ground. Maintenance crews are replacing the floorboards due to rust from water leaking. Walking up the ...

The Tarrant County sheriff’s office has notified the public of the year’s first in-custody death at the county jail Saturday ... news reporter with The Dallas Morning News.

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 deaths.

The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office says an inmate died after an attempted suicide over the weekend. According to the sheriff's office, the 36-year-old was booked into the jail on Feb. 4 and died ...

Anthony Johnson Jr. and his mother.(Courtesy of Anthony Johnson's family) A U.S. district judge dismissed the claims against Tarrant County in the civil case brought by the family of Anthony ...

Weekend shifts for detention officers at the Dallas County Jail went from being determined by seniority to being determined by gender in 2019, according to the women’s lawsuit filed in the ...

The Texas Commission on Jail Standards approved a 64-bed expansion project to take place at the Montgomery County Jail as ...