A 26-year-old Harris County Jail inmate was pronounced dead after allegedly smoking an unknown substance and losing consciousness, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2025/06/03/522968/26-year-old-harris-county-jail-inmate-dies-after-allegedly-smoking-unknown-substance-officials-say/

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The Texas Rangers are investigating after a 52-year-old Harris County Jail inmate died on Tuesday. It marks the sixth in-custody death reported this year.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2025/05/30/522705/death-of-52-year-old-harris-county-jail-inmate-under-investigation-by-texas-rangers/

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The Fort Bend County District Attorney’s Office is investigating the death of an inmate at the county jail earlier this month.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/fort-bend/2025/04/11/518602/fort-bend-county-jail-inmate-found-deceased-in-cell/

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One year after her son took his final breath in a private Louisiana jail facility, Sarah Knight is suing the facility as well as Harris County and Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, claiming they failed to provide Jaleen Anderson with necessary medical care.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2025/04/03/517637/harris-county-sheriff-ed-gonzalez-sued-by-family-of-outsourced-jail-inmate-who-died-in-louisiana-facility/

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Two Harris County prisoners died this month, one of whom died after being transferred to a private prison in Louisiana – an ongoing practice used to address overcrowding within the county jail in downtown Houston.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2025/01/28/512146/2-people-died-in-harris-county-jail-marking-first-reported-deaths-this-year/

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The Harris County Jail passed a state safety inspection, the jail's first passing grade in nearly two years. However, state officials provided "technical assistance" during the inspection, leading some advocates to question whether the passing grade was warranted.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2024/08/29/497923/another-man-dies-in-the-harris-county-jail-as-facility-passes-first-inspection-in-2-years/

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State officials have been reducing the Harris County Jail's bed capacity as the facility continues to struggle under the weight of chronic overcrowding and understaffing.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2024/02/02/476187/state-officials-have-been-reducing-the-harris-county-jails-bed-capacity-as-overcrowding-understaffing-issues-persist/

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Houston attorney accused of smuggling over 150 drug-laced papers into the Harris County Jail

Authorities say 77-year-old defense attorney Ronald Lewis allegedly delivered papers laced with ecstasy and synthetic marijuana to incarcerated people during multiple in-person visits at the Harris County Jail. Lewis was arrested last Friday. 

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The lead story in the #Houston Chronicle today is that THREE MORE people died in the Harris County jail in the past week.

It's grim news but I think it also shows progress that the local paper sees deaths in the jail as front page news. It hasn't always been this way.

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