An arrest affidavit said she made it through police, a strip search, and an X-ray scanner at the jail with drugs hidden in a ...

County Judge Clay Jenkins says the current facility is facing overcrowding issues and has outlived its usefulness as it is nearly 50 years old. “I think we’ll have the land bought in ’26. And we’ve ...

Texas’ new tool to help with jail releases is a welcome step toward fixing a costly and frustrating process in the Dallas ...

A troubling increase in the number of deaths at the Dallas County Jail over the last eight years demands a deeper look from county officials and answers from our sheriff. According to a recent ...

The Dallas County Jail this week passed a comprehensive state inspection for the second time in a row, a shift from recent failures to meet minimum standards Officials with the Texas Commission on ...

Tamera Hutcherson is a Dallas-based community organizer who previously worked for the Texas Jail Project. She has written the op-ed below regarding Proposition 3, one of the 17 propositions on the Nov ...

Five Dallas County inmates were injured Tuesday morning when a transport van was hit from behind on Interstate 30 in Fort ...

Five inmates were hospitalized with minor injuries Tuesday after a Dallas County transport van was rear‑ended on a Fort Worth ...