HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Nearly a year after Hurricane Harvey slammed into southeast Texas, Eyewitness News has learned the Harris County Criminal Courthouse is still years away from functioning at ...

As early voting is under way, experts are raising concerns that a Texas constitutional amendment that would change bail laws could increase the strain on an overcrowded Harris County Jail and ...

A federal appeals panel ruled Harris County deputies acted reasonably when they repeatedly punched a man outside a Houston ...

Misdemeanor judges have issued a scathing letter declaring their “loss of confidence” in the director of a Harris County agency that appoints defense attorneys to poor people accused of low-level ...

A federal lawsuit was filed Monday against Harris County and its sheriff as well as several Harris County Jail detention officers accused of striking an inmate dozens of times after an altercation in ...

A former Harris County jail guard was sentenced to one year of deferred adjudication, months after he was indicted on ...

The Harris County Jail houses nearly 10,000 inmates, the biggest lockup in Texas. A 32-year-old man who died this week during a reported altercation with detention officers while on his way out of the ...

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