A report found up to 70% of guard positions were unfilled at some prisons. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has a 26% ...

FORT WORTH – The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office has appointed a new chief jailer to oversee a facility that has faced ...

The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office announced it has hired the head of Dallas County jails to oversee its own operations.

In May, executive chief deputy Charles Eckert announced his retirement. Eckert had been with the Tarrant County Sheriff’s ...

A group of conservative Second Amendment activists joined the calls for accountability in the Sheriff’s Office that ...

The Tarrant County Sheriff's Department has been under scrutiny for months after several people died in custody in 2024.

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - An oversight committee now wants the state to close jails and prisons amid staffing shortages. This ...

Tarrant County Commissioners will meet to discuss another inmate's death at the jail. Protestors will also be there. Here's ...

Tarrant County has hired Shannon Herklotz to run the county jail for its everyday management, the Texas Commission on Jail ...

Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown speaks after the Texas Commission on Jail Standards announces to Dallas County commissioners and Sheriff's Department that the Dallas County Jail passed an ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn said jail staff "performed magnificently" leading up to the death of Mason Yancy, who died in the Tarrant County Jail Dec. 27.