Although the pilot is starting small, county officials hope the center can be expanded on site and replicated across the ...

DART officers can now divert some trespass suspects to an Austin Street transition center instead of booking them.

Jail and court computer systems compatibility makes it harder to adjudicate cases, causing longer waits in the jail.

The Dallas County Jail was nearly at capacity with more than 7,000 inmates going into the Labor Day holiday. But county officials have been preparing for high numbers. Heading into the long Labor Day ...

The Dallas County jail has more inmates than it is authorized to hold for the first time in nearly two decades, county leaders said Tuesday. Hitting 100% capacity at the detention center raises the ...

The Dallas County Sheriff's Office refutes claims that the county jail is at "crisis capacity," stating it's near but not over its limit. Sheriff Marian Brown says the jail's capacity is at a ...

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 ...

The state will not seek the death penalty against the man charged with beheading his co-worker at a Dallas motel.