Harris County Jail

So you're a Harris County

Doug Supernaw Committed

Feds Investigate Harris County Jail Again

I'm Not The Kind Of Guy Who Uses A Real-Life Skull Bong

Cover Story: Mental Illness and Harris County Jail

The Jail's Mental-Health Issues To Get An Airing

Free Housing For Mentally Ill Inmates Proposed

Hilary Duff's Dad -- Still Free & On The Prowl

The Year of Living Anxiously

Are We Having Fun Yet? Or is it just the jangly buzz of advanced urban stress syndrome?

A Man. A Plan. A Small Battery-Operated Device.

How many times have you wished you had your own drumset, so you could bust out a rim shot every time your buddy says something outrageously funny, like "Get-r-done!"? Well, one Houston man is trying to turn that dream into reality. Glen Jackson, a 48-year-old refinery worker, recently patented the ... More >>

The Web Conducts Yet Another Calm, Reasonable Discussion

The Houston Chronicle reported today that the burgeoning problem of jail overcrowding may be dealt with by releasing low-risk offenders. They are also, as we mentioned today, eventually creating a mental-health court that will aim to treat the ill instead of simply repeatedly sending them to jai ... More >>

King Con

Steven Russell can bluff his way out of anything -- even prison. so why can't he stay out of jail?

A Last Bite of '97

Steven Russell can bluff his way out of anything -- even prison. so why can't he stay out of jail?

The Truth is Out There

Pharmacist Garland Gross says Deer Park police have abused him for ten years. Police say Gross is a jerk who harasses them.

Letters

Pharmacist Garland Gross says Deer Park police have abused him for ten years. Police say Gross is a jerk who harasses them.

Living and Dying with Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor Over Sundance

How I turned some newspaper stories into a book which became a movie that caused those two guys to kiss

Restitution, Mental Illness, DNA Evidence, Oysters and White People

How I turned some newspaper stories into a book which became a movie that caused those two guys to kiss

Bayousphere

How I turned some newspaper stories into a book which became a movie that caused those two guys to kiss

Gone to Hell: Mental Illness and Harris County Jail

Even though Alexander Hatcher is bipolar and schizophrenic, he wasn't given his meds for his first three months in jail. He got in fights with the guards. Now he's sentenced to prison for a long, long time.

Texas Felonies, Boner Lawsuits and Priscilla Slade's MySpace

We thought Texas was tough

Rockin' Renewal

The imminent launch of new venue Warehouse Live makes it official: Downtown is now Houston's live music hot spot

Love Hurts

Locked in a labyrinth of codependency, Lolly and Roger spend their days warily together

Drug Resistant

Harris County jailers are in no hurry to hand out meds to inmates with AIDS. Inmates claim this and other lockup practices endanger their lives.

Captive Market

Robbery suspects may call from jail, but the county and Ma Bell are the ones making out like bandits

Black and White Only

County jail counts strip Hispanics of their ethnicity

Houston Chronicle, Modestly Declining To Blow Its Own Horn. For Some Reason

Photo by alex-sThe Houston Chronicle bannered a headline Saturday over a story about federal inspectors criticizing the Harris County Jail: "County Jail Fails Feds' Probe."The story outlined the results of the inspection, saying "poor access to health care and life-threatening conditions" at the jai ... More >>

Jail Hell

Inmates emerging from the Harris County Jail tell remarkably similar stories of horrible conditions inside.

Don't Like the Conditions in Jail?

Then don't end up there, say readers.

Jail, Coffee, Drunk Driving and Insidious Racism?

Houston Press readers weigh in.

Houston's Craziest: The 30 Worst

The troubled people whom Houston police officers hate to see headed their way.

Dogfighting Bust Whimpers Out

Plus: Big new park for Montrose?

Harris County Jail Passes Inspection, Gets Certified

If you have to go to jail, it might as well be a certified one​The oft-troubled Harris County Jail has passed a surprise week-long inspection and has been certified by the state, Sheriff Adrian Garcia announced this afternoon."This is just the beginning of our efforts to not only stay in complianc ... More >>

Indie-Rock Band Kitchen Knife Houston Airport = Jail

MySpace.com/yellerfever​In "Me & Paul," from 1971's Yesterday's Wine, Willie Nelson sings, "Almost busted in Laredo, for reasons that I'd rather not disclose/ But if you're staying in a motel there and leave, just don't leave nothin' in your clothes." If Austin-based YellowFever covered "Me & ... More >>

Texas Monthly Looks At (Most Of) Houston's Mental Health Issues

There's at least one local program for mentally ill people that shouldn't be affected by the state's proposed budget cuts. ​This month's Texas Monthly features a "Letter from Houston," which focuses on the city's mental health services, primarily the Houston Police Department's Mental Health Unit, ... More >>

Henry Fairlie: Harris County Jail Officer Charged With Smuggling Drugs & Contraband

Photo courtesy HCSOHenry Fairlie: Trying to keep the customers satisfied​The concierge service at the Harris County Jail just got a little more inadequate: a detention officer has been arrested and charged with trying to deliver drugs and contraband into the facility.Note to incarcerated customers ... More >>

Harris County's Jail-Population Growth Third In Nation, Study Finds

Harris County Jail's having a population boom​In an era when locking fewer people up and spending less on jails seems to make sense and is rapidly becoming en vogue, Harris County was increasing its spending and putting more folks behind bars than nearly any other populous county in the country, a ... More >>

The Ten Oddest Crimes Of 2010, Southeast Texas Style

Hard as it may be to believe, the criminal element of Southeast Texas did dumb and weird things in 2010, continuing a tradition that dates back to the creation of Southeast Texas. Here are ten of the oddest and dumbest: 10. Two former EMS employees in Santa Fe were arrested after they allegedly p ... More >>

Drake Jackson: Harris County Jailer Exposed Himself to Female Inmate, HCSO Says

HCSODrake Jackson: HCSO says it fired him for exposing himself​An employee of the Harris County Jail has been fired for allegedly exposing himself to a female inmate, the Sheriff's Office announced today. Drake Jackson, 40, has been charged with official oppression because of "sexually offen ... More >>

Comment of the Day

​Our weekly Where Are We Eating? feature gets readers salivating most Monday mornings, with hours to go until lunch. But today's offering put a few readers off, leading to some snarky comments about where the plate is served. Said Simplyrick: Harris County Jail. Added Nate: A grade schoo ... More >>

Jessica Tata: Legislature Acts to Help Increase Daycare Inspections

Jessica Tata spurs lege to act​Blink once and you might have missed state rep Carol Alvarado's bill in the House Urban Affairs last week that offered at least one more stopgap measure to prevent the West Houston daycare fire that took the lives of four small children. Former day care operator ... More >>

Harris County Jail: No More Daily Visiting Hours

Visiting allowed only four days a week​Sheriff Adrian Garcia is announcing today that he's eliminating daily visiting hours to the Harris County Jail. Visits will be allowed only four days per week instead of the current seven. Doing so will allow him "to redeploy jail staff and save $1.3 mil ... More >>

Wayland Matthew Fox, Wrongfully Convicted of Child Molestation, Speaks Out About His Release

Photo by Juan E. RivasWayland Matthew Fox spent a year and a half behind bars for a crime he didn't commit.​When Child Protective Services showed up at the house of Houston native Wayland Matthew Fox in March 2006, his life changed forever. Fox learned that he was being accused of sexually mol ... More >>

Jeremy Kaelin, Accused 'Roid-Dealer/Woman-Beater, Loses Fancy Breitling Watch to State. What a Pity.

Jeremy Kaelin: Probably won't need that watch for a while anyway.​With last Friday's default judgment favoring the plaintiff, the case of The State of Texas vs One (1) Watch with Clear Stones has come to an end. A court found that Jeremy Kaelin's silver-colored Breitling for Bentley watch fo ... More >>

Shawn Asil Jordan: Masturbating in Jail Adds to His Problems

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.​When you're sitting in jail on an aggravated robbery charge, time passes slowly. Thoughts drift to happier times. If those happier times involve sex -- even if it's just a fantasy "happier time" of you, say, banging Rihanna like she's never been banged ... More >>

Alleged White Supremacists Beat Black Man, But DA Doesn't File Hate Crime Charge

FacebookCharles Cannon won't face hate-crime charges.​In a crime that hearkened back to the skinhead days of the early '90s, or modern-day Dallas, four white men remain behind bars today charged with assaulting a black man at a downtown bus stop early Sunday morning. Police want the incident c ... More >>

Heights Burglary Ring Smashed; Four Area Youths in Custody & Their Facebook Bragging Exposed

Phots by HPDNathaniel Cook: One of four arrested.​An alert area resident and diligent Central Patrol officers have taken in a quartet of Heights miscreants they say broke into four area homes on Tuesday. Police say Nathaniel Dean Cook, Octavius Demone Harris, Eli Marquis Ortiz and Everardo Se ... More >>

Heights Burglary Ring Busted

Don't brag on Facebook, kids

Feds Indict Charles Cannon, Three Others On Hate-Crime Charge For Bus-Stop Beating

Charles Cannon's Facebook profile at the time of arrest​A federal grand jury has indicted four men in the beating of a black man at a Houston bus stop in August. Charles Cannon, 26; Michael McLaughlin, 40; Brian Kerstetter, 32; and Joseph Staggs, 49, were indicted on one charge each of violat ... More >>

Running on Empty: Robbery Suspects Busted When Getaway Car Runs Out of Gas

From left: Kolby Fleeks, Raymond Paige and Kassandra Beltran.​In the recent critically acclaimed movie, Drive, dreamy heartthrob Ryan Gosling plays a stunt driver by day and a getaway driver by night. He has some simple rules that the crooks hiring him must follow. For example, there is a very ... More >>

Melissa Rendon and Sabrina Pierce: Jailed After Christmas-Morn Hammer Attack

Harris County JailDarryl Strawberry's life takes another sad turn...Wait, strike that. This is actually accused thunder-goddess Sabrina Pierce.​Two women from east Houston's trailer-riffic Cloverleaf section are behind bars after they allegedly used a hammer to separate a man from his wallet o ... More >>