The Texas Commission on Jail Standards requires "one jailer on each floor where 10 or more inmates are housed, with no less than one jailer per 48 inmates." To meet that, the Polk County sheriff said ...

The county has failed to comply with Texas' mandated ratio of one detention officer for every 48 inmates, Sheriff Byron Lyons ...

Polk County Sheriff Byron Lyons is exploring alternative housing options for inmates due to overcrowding and staffing ...

Texas commissioners overseeing jail standards questioned an apparent lack of effort by the Harris County Sheriff’s Office to ...

When Larry Henderson graduated from Mariemont High School in 1985, he had already enlisted in the Marines, the start of ...

On Friday, a Harrison County jury acquitted James McMorris of Louisiana of a deadly shooting during spring break of 2023. His ...

The dogs involved in the attack were immediately placed in a licensed quarantine facility for evaluation and observation.

The company said the man flipped his ATV in the 200 block of Neill Run Road in Peach Bottom Township at 11:50 p.m. The man ...

Fifteen men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 12 other people are scheduled to be put to ...

A man whose arrest involved agencies from two counties and disrupted traffic on Sixth Street on Saturday is from Lawrence, ...