Dallas County commissioners have agreed to spend $55 million dollars exploring potential sites for a new jail complex. The ...

The Dallas County Jail this week passed a comprehensive state inspection for the second time in a row, a shift from recent failures to meet minimum standards Officials with the Texas Commission on ...

County Judge Clay Jenkins says the current facility is facing overcrowding issues and has outlived its usefulness as it is nearly 50 years old. “I think we’ll have the land bought in ’26. And we’ve ...

Tamera Hutcherson is a Dallas-based community organizer who previously worked for the Texas Jail Project. She has written the op-ed below regarding Proposition 3, one of the 17 propositions on the Nov ...

Elías Valverde II / Staff Photographer The Dallas City Council agreed Wednesday to pay Dallas County for jail services after a monthlong delay and approved an $8.7 million annual contract for housing ...

Elected officials and non-profits met in Dallas this week for a meeting on how they can work together on "issues plaguing North Texas." The meeting at the organization, Homeward Bound, included 65 ...

The Texas Commission on Jail Standards has given Dallas County's jail a passing inspection — with no notes for corrective action. Despite a clean report, Sheriff Marian Brown said she plans to keep ...