Two days after state inspectors arrived at the jail unannounced on Feb. 14, the Sheriff’s Department sent county facilities staff a list of more than 500 doors that were “inoperative ...

The county did not file a response to McDowell’s lawsuit before entering mediation, court records show. In another case, Ryan LaKeith Harris alleged the county held him in jail 141 days past his ...

Dallas County prosecutors don’t expect they’ll need to release any other people in jail awaiting trial “right away” because of the city’s evidence loss, a spokeswoman for District ...

A man already in jail on a Dallas murder charge has now been charged with another killing in North Texas, police say.

DALLAS - Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price told city council members this week that the county wants to build a new jail and courthouse. The revelation raises a lot of questions.

Spencer Swearnger died at Parkland Hospital in November 2023 after he allegedly drank excessive amounts of toilet water in ...

DALLAS — Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price this week called on Dallas to consider building its own jail and for the construction of a new courthouse. Price told city council members ...

DALLAS — Dallas County commissioners are considering whether to move the county jail and criminal courthouse from the western edge of downtown, potentially opening hundreds of acres of prime ...

"There is no overcrowding in the Dallas County Jail." In 2007, this jail housed 10,000 people. It was so overcrowded the justice department took over operations for four years.

Dallas County’s jail — as it’s recognized today — opened almost 60 years ago. The Lew Sterrett Justice Center, the “North Tower,” was added in 1993.

Not everyone incarcerated in the Dallas County Jail has been convicted of a felony. ... Making Dallas an Even Better Place. Thursday, May 1, 2025 May 1, 2025. 62° F Dallas, TX.