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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 ...
There are over 150 federal law enforcement offices in Texas. including those for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Customs and Border Protection; Drug Enforcement Administration; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Immigration and Customs Enforcement; United States Secret Service; Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and U.S. Marshals. [2]
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]
In 2010, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Trooper Mark DeArza, 39, of Houston, and DPS clerk Lidia Gutierrez, 37, of Galena Park, Texas, were convicted of conspiring to sell Texas driver's licenses to unqualified applicants for a fee after pleading guilty to the charge before United States District Judge Gray Miller. [11]
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
Criminal records in the United States contain records of arrests, criminal charges and the disposition of those charges. [1] Criminal records are compiled and updated on local, state, and federal levels by government agencies, [2] most often law enforcement agencies. Their primary purpose is to present a comprehensive criminal history for a ...
Sean Tindell, the commissioner of the state Department of Public Safety, which oversees the Capitol Police, declined through a spokesperson to answer specific questions about Harris’ shooting on ...
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]