Attorney General Ken Paxton affirmed limits on when the state has to order an outside investigation into an inmate's death.

Doug Myers is a digital content producer for CBS Texas. A longtime journalist, Doug has worked for four newspapers in Texas and Louisiana and for three television stations in Texas. He has also spent ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in an opinion the Texas Commission on Jail Standards has the authority to hire an independent investigator to look into all custody deaths. The opinion is in ...

A second inmate escaped custody in Tarrant County on Tuesday afternoon, escaping from a jail laundry facility on Resource Drive. 26-year-old Victor Castillo was located in a dry riverbed and captured ...

A 40-year-old Tarrant County Jail inmate died Sunday, according to the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office. The woman was found unresponsive in her cell. Lifesaving measures were administered by medical ...

Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price believes it comes down to better pay.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has drawn a firm line around where many jail death investigations start, and where they can now stop. In a Feb. 12 formal opinion sent to Tarrant County Criminal ...

Elías Valverde II / Staff Photographer A Tarrant County jail inmate has been caught after deputies said he escaped from a sheriff’s office laundry facility on Tuesday. The inmate, 26-year-old Victor ...

A Tarrant County jail inmate escaped custody Monday and was recaptured after a manhunt the same afternoon. 27-year-old Carlos Rodriguez Romero reportedly slipped through his handcuffs and escaped the ...