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

A 55-year-old man died Wednesday after a medical emergency inside the Harris County Jail, according to the sheriff's office.

Harris County justice leaders are warning that recent state laws could push the jail system back toward crisis mode. This is as the county has made a lot of progress, reducing the number of people ...

Although many of them had criminal records, most people who died in custody had not been convicted of the crime they were in ...