We’ll take those threats seriously,” Commissioner Manny Ramirez said Tuesday, as sheriff’s deputies used metal detectors at a ...

It appears to be we’ve got problems there,” says the brother of a man who died in sheriff’s office custody in December.

Johnson died in Tarrant County Jail custody, and his death was ruled a homicide. Two jailers were charged with murder and 15 ...

After three members of the public were detained at the Tarrant County Commissioners Court last week, officials are proposing ...

Steven Nelson also beat Pastor Clint Dobson’s secretary and killed a Tarrant County inmate while he was in jail awaiting trial, authorities said.

Several said they believed the move was meant as retaliation for criticism the court has received over many issues that have ...

The former head of the Tarrant County Jail retired last May after a series of inmate deaths, including Anthony Johnson's. Two jailers have been charged with murder in his death. "I'm not out to ...

He was then booked into the Tarrant County Jail on Dec. 24. The sheriff described Yancy as a 'high priority inmate' for medical reasons and was seeing two nurses when he collapsed on Dec. 27.

The role Shannon Herklotz assumed in Tarrant County earlier ... The downtown jail, among other issues, was facing overcrowding and was shipping some inmates to facilities in West Texas and Louisiana.