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The 1307 Jail (located at 1307 Baker Street [15]), located east of the 701 Jail, was originally built as a state jail for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [16] The building was at first occupied by the Harris County Community Supervision and Corrections Department. The building reopened under the Sheriff's office in 1998. [15]
The Harris County Sheriff's Office is the primary law enforcement agency in the 1,118 square miles (2,900 km 2) of unincorporated area of Harris County, serving as the equivalent of the county police for the approximately 1,071,485 people living in the unincorporated areas of the county. In Texas, sheriffs and their deputies are fully empowered ...
The Franklin County Courthouse and Jail in Mount Vernon, Texas was built in 1912. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. The listing includes two contributing buildings: the courthouse and the jail. The design of a prior Franklin County courthouse, while not necessarily itself especially architecturally distinguished ...
Three years later, the devices have proliferated nationwide and even in some of Texas’ county jails. Harris County Jail, the largest jail in Texas, plans to deploy tablets to all of the people ...
Constable (Texas) In the U.S. state of Texas, a constable is an elected law enforcement officer for a precinct of a county. Counties may have between one and eight precincts each depending on their population. The constables are provided for in the Texas Constitution of 1876 (Article 5, Section 18). The term of office for Texas constables is ...
October 23, 2024 at 8:26 AM. HOUSTON - A man was shot and killed Wednesday morning after opening fire on law enforcement officers who were attempting to execute a warrant in a domestic violence ...
August 27, 2024 at 9:23 PM. The Franklin County Sheriff's Office continues to look for a gunman who fatally shot a man last Friday night in the parking lot of a Home Depot store in Prairie ...
The Harris County Sheriff's Office is the largest sheriff's office in Texas and fourth largest in the US, with a sworn employee count of 2,537 in 2005. [90] In 2000, 60% of deputies were assigned to jail operations, 26% to patrol, 12% to investigations, and 1% to process serving. [91]