An inmate in the Dallas County jail has been charged in Hickory County for alleged sexual abuse of a seven-year-old girl.

The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office has notified the public of the year’s first in-custody death at the county jail after an ...

Jails are overrun with people on drugs, struggling with mental illness and poor health. How are sheriffs handling the challenges?

TARRANT COUNTY – A U.S. district judge dismissed Tarrant County from the civil lawsuit filed by the family of Anthony Johnson Jr. Johnson, a marine veteran, was killed during an altercation inside the ...

On any given night, about 16,500 people are held in Ohio's 89 jails and jailers book about 300,000 people each year - though ...

ARLINGTON, Texas - A man on death row for killing a North Texas pastor was executed Wednesday evening in Huntsville. Activists called for Governor Greg Abbott to halt the execution but were not ...

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing execution on Wednesday evening.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday, to release files related to the assassinations of President John F ...

Three days before the murder, Nelson had been released from a court-ordered anger-management program, part of a deal with Dallas County ... the killing of another jail inmate.

A 28-year-old man originally from Danville was jailed earlier this month on suspicion of indecency with a child after police ...