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Brown was beaten to death by two inmates who were later charged with aggravated assault causing bodily injury, authorities told Houston Press. Jail or Agency: Harris County; State: Texas; Date arrested or booked: 4/3/2016; Date of death: 4/5/2016; Age at death: 46; Sources: Texas Commission on Jail Standards, www.houstonpress.com, Harris County ...
As of 2024 the Harris County jail facilities together have a capacity for 9,575 inmates; at time they have held over 12,000. Due to a state-mandated staffing ratio, the HCSO had to ship inmates to other jails, including some in Louisiana; in June 2010 1,600 Harris County inmates were serving time at other jails. By January 2012 the Harris ...
Lucky Ward (born November 1, 1964) is an African-American man who was convicted of strangling two people in September 2010 in Houston, Texas, while he was homeless. [1] He was accused of committing four other homicides, one dating back to 1985, none of which were ever prosecuted. [2]
He was sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Dennise Hayslip, and her other boyfriend, Darren Cain, on 30 April 1998. Thompson made headlines in 2005 by escaping from Harris County Jail in Houston , Texas , after a re-sentencing hearing where he was sentenced to death for a second time, using a forged ID badge, claiming to be with ...
Carl Wayne Buntion (March 30, 1944 – April 21, 2022) [2] was an American man convicted of capital murder in Texas and sentenced to death. On April 21, 2022, at the age of 78, he became the oldest inmate to be executed in Texas and the state's first execution of 2022.
Prior to 1923, Harris County took responsibility for executions of inmates in criminal cases involving the county. [16] In 1853 the first execution in Houston took place in public at Founder's Cemetery in the Fourth Ward; initially the cemetery was the execution site, but post-1868 executions took place in the jail facilities. [17] In 1923 the ...
A Texas defense attorney has been arrested and accused of being a “major supplier” of dangerous narcotics in jail by sneaking inmates papers laced with drugs, the Harris County Sheriff's ...
She is the Harris County District Attorney in Texas and assumed office on January 1, 2017. Her current term ends on December 31, 2024. Her current term ends on December 31, 2024. As part of her role as District Attorney, she is the top law enforcement official who oversees all prosecutions in Harris County.