The federal lawsuit in Louisiana is the third to be filed in connection to Harris County Jail inmates who died after being outsourced to LaSalle Correctional Center, one of the privately owned ...

The lawsuit alleges that Erik Carlson, 29, died on Jan. 25, 2025, after jail staff repeatedly ignored his pleas for medical ...

The Harris County Sheriff’s Office identified the man as Lenton Gallow Jr., 55. He was booked into the jail on Jan. 5 on ...

An inmate died Thursday at the Harris County Jail after contracting bacterial meningitis, a life-threatening infection, according to the sheriff's office. The 53-year-old man, who was not identified ...

A Houston man's death Wednesday is the first of the year of a Harris County inmate .

FOX 26 Houston reports that Hernandez was taken to Ben Taub at about noon and disappeared from custody later that afternoon.

Twenty people died in 2025 in the Harris County Jail, the state's largest pre-trial detention system, which has faced years of understaffing, overcrowding and wrongful death lawsuits. The death toll ...

An inmate was rushed to the hospital and died after a medical emergency on Wednesday, HCSO says. This is Harris County's first inmate death of 2026.