The Texas agency overseeing jail standards will heighten its response to Harris County's years-long struggle to meet state ...

Two hours before his first meeting with citizens, Sheriff Jerry Sheridan tried to wriggle out of it because of protests.

It’s time to take another shot at bids to renovate the McLeod County Courthouse and Jail. At its regular meeting Tuesday morning, the County Board unanimously agreed to advertise for bids on ...

It appears to be we’ve got problems there,” says the brother of a man who died in sheriff’s office custody in December.

As residents took turns at a microphone in a packed meeting room at the Legends Center on Soutel Drive in Northwest ...

At Wednesday’s Fulton County Commission meeting, a five-month extension to a contract for maintaining jail facilities at its ...

Yes, again. As fragile as Oklahoma County's finances are, another misstep with Moody's Ratings, a missed deadline, could make ...

El Salvador has agreed to take deportees from the United States and violent criminals from U.S. prisons in an "extraordinary ...