The Shelby County Jail's intake area is severely overcrowded, holding over 350 detainees, some for weeks, exceeding capacity. The jail's total population, nearing 3,000, significantly surpasses its ...

The North Tower Detention Facility of the Lew Sterrett Justice Center in Dallas in August 2022. Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer Dallas will delay its first installment of an $8.7 million payment to ...

A prisoner escorted to the sally port of North Tower Detention Facility in the Lew Sterrett Justice Center in Dallas on Jan. 26, 2018. (Nathan Hunsinger/The Dallas Morning News)(Nathan Hunsinger / ...

Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare says the intake division in his office is fully staffed by line prosecutors for the first time in eight years, a move aimed at alleviating a massive court ...