Dallas County commissioners have agreed to spend $55 million dollars exploring potential sites for a new jail complex. The ...

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 ...

County Judge Clay Jenkins says the current facility is facing overcrowding issues and has outlived its usefulness as it is nearly 50 years old. “I think we’ll have the land bought in ’26. And we’ve ...

The Texas Commission on Jail Standards has given Dallas County's jail a passing inspection — with no notes for corrective action. Despite a clean report, Sheriff Marian Brown said she plans to keep ...