Harris County Jail

Three Men Accused of Beating Pregnant Woman, Newborn in Critical Condition

Harris County Sheriff's Department announced Thursday they had arrested two men and one juvenile accused of beating a pregnant woman after breaking into her home in northwest Harris County. The woman was tied up with tape and beaten. She was taken to the hospital and an emergency C-section was perfo ... More >>

Deandre Davis-Williams: The Gruesome, Horrifying Details On How He Raped 11-Year-Old Daily Until She Got Pregnant (Semi-NSFW)

Rape is terrible. Raping an 11-year-old girl, almost daily, until she becomes pregnant -- and then playing with her already-rocked 11-year-old mind by saying you'll commit suicide because of her -- that takes a special kind of monster. And that's what court documents allege against Deandre Davis-Wi ... More >>

Michael Brown Gets 180 Days in Jail

Judge Sheri Dean sentenced Michael Brown to 180 days in Harris County Jail this morning for spending millions on luxury items and real estate, in violation of a 2011 court order. She found he had violated the majority of claims his estranged wife Rachel Brown brought against him in their Neverending ... More >>

NEW UPDATE with Court Hearing -- Michael Brown: Booked into Harris County Jail, Where Maybe He Can Meet Some Folks Who Treat Him Like Family!

Ex-hand surgeon Michael Brown has been booked into Harris County Jail for allegedly not paying child support. Bond has been set for $500,000. We're not sure yet if this is for an alleged nonpayment for his kids from ex-wife Darlina (in Colorado) or his children in Houston. It's been a tough new yea ... More >>

An Open Letter to People I Un-Followed During the Election

George Aragon Charged with Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child, is Brought Back From Guam

It took about a month but Harris County Sheriff's Office investigators finally have U.S. Marine George Aragon back in the United States, specifically in the Harris County Jail on charges of continuous sexual abuse of a child. The 22-year-old Aragon was picked up about a month ago in Guam but refuse ... More >>

Devin Egolinsky: Hey, Let's Call 911 And Tell the Dispatcher He's a "Punk Bitch"!

So the other day, we were thinking to ourselves, "Self, what is the stupidest thing you could do that no one has ever done before?" We pondered for a while and hit on the jackpot: Call up 911 and scream at the dispatcher that he's a "punk bitch." You can't imagine our disappointment upon learning ... More >>

Kevin Meyer, Harris County Sheriff's Deputy, Arrested At His Own Wedding; Fellow Deputy Also Charged in SPJST Hall Fracas

Apparently Harris County Deputy Sheriff Kevin Meyer's Saturday night wedding reception was a doozy, because at some point, management at the SPJST Hall on Beall Street in the Heights area wanted to pull the plug on the shindig. Two Precinct One constables were working security at this raucous fanda ... More >>

Vastie Shakira Coleman Charged in Death of Son, Age 4, Bayou Body Count No. 100

The Harris County Sheriff's Office has charged Vastie Shakira Coleman injury to a child - serious bodily injury, after she is believed to have beaten her four-year-old son, Kyron Barnes, to death with a cord, according to reports from the Sheriff's office and KHOU. According to reports, the boy wa ... More >>

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

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 on Christmas Day. According to a criminal complaint, Melissa Rendon flagged down the man's car in the 1100 block of Freeport, near the plush, lavishly ... More >>

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

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 narrow window of time when Gosling's character will remain on the sc ... More >>

Feds Indict Charles Cannon, Three Others on Hate-Crime Charge for Bus-Stop Beating

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 violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevent ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Dogfighting Bust Whimpers Out

Plus: Big new park for Montrose?

Houston's Craziest: The 30 Worst

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

Jail, Coffee, Drunk Driving and Insidious Racism?

Houston Press readers weigh in.

Don't Like the Conditions in Jail?

Then don't end up there, say readers.

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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

Bayousphere

Free Housing For Mentally Ill Inmates Proposed

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

Cover Story: Mental Illness and Harris County Jail

Feds Investigate Harris County Jail Again

Texas Felonies, Boner Lawsuits and Priscilla Slade's MySpace

We thought Texas was tough

Doug Supernaw Committed

So you're a Harris County

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

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.

A Last Bite of '97

King Con

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