The inmate was pronounced dead at the hospital after experiencing a medical emergency in the Harris County Jail, according to HCSO authorities.
The federal lawsuit in Louisiana is the third to be filed in connection to Harris County Jail inmates who died after being outsourced to LaSalle Correctional Center, one of the privately owned ...
Seventy-three percent of inmates in the jail are currently taking psychotropic medication, according to county data, while 77 ...
Lenton Gallow died Wednesday at St. Joseph Hospital, according to the sheriff's office.
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 is hiring 131 jailers to ease overcrowding. Grieving mothers demand medical staff instead after losing loved ...
As a part of a yearlong study, Texas county jails are collecting data about pregnant inmates’ prenatal care, mental health ...
The lawsuit alleges that Erik Carlson, 29, died on Jan. 25, 2025, after jail staff repeatedly ignored his pleas for medical ...
A 56-year-old man in custody at the Harris County Jail died at a hospital, four days after suffering a medical emergency at ...