The family of Mason Yancy, who died in the Tarrant County Jail, sent a letter calling for the firing of Sheriff Bill Waybourn ...

The family of a man who died in the Tarrant County Jail last December sent a letter to Tarrant County commissioners on ...

“The challenge we have is you’ve got a number of deaths under various employees since 2017 that keep occurring, and there’s one man at the top, and that’s Bill Waybourn,” he sai ...

Protestors rallied as part of a national day of action organized by the 50501 Movement, with events in all 50 U.S. states.

A bipartisan push for jail oversight comes after a North Texas sheriff flouted state law mandating independent investigations of deaths on his watch.

A 57-year-old woman died Saturday at John Peter Smith Hospital while in the custody of the Tarrant County Jail, the sheriff’s ...

Gadlin is the third person to die in Tarrant County jail custody this year. Charles Stephen Johnson died Feb. 8 after a ...

A woman who was arrested earlier this month for alleged theft at DFW Airport died Saturday in Tarrant County jail custody.

Since Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn took office in 2017, at least 65 people have died while in custody at the county’s jail. The inmate deaths have drawn scrutiny from the public and ...