Texas Jail Project Through News Stories in 2025
April 11, 2025
Here’s a round-up of 2025 news featuring stories, interviews, op-eds, and essays from Texas Jail Project community members and staff.
Topics: Cash Bail, Custody Death, Jail Conditions, Medical, Mental Health, out of state custody deaths, outsourcing, Overcrowding, Pregnancy, Pretrial Policy, TCJS
Here’s a round-up of 2025 news featuring stories, interviews, op-eds, and essays from Texas Jail Project community members and staff. Find them all on our Stories page.
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ABC13: Records show Liberty County Jail failed fire inspection before blaze sent 5 officers to the hospital
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Weekly news round-up 3/31/25
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San Antonio Express-News: Exclusive tour: Take a look inside the Bexar County jail
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Press Conference: Jaleen Anderson Wrongful Death Lawsuit
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Houston Chronicle: Harris County Commissioners discuss building ‘mental-health focused facility’ to tackle jail issues
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Fort Worth Report: Fort Worth police didn’t investigate Tarrant jail deaths. State says there are no consequences
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Fort Worth Star Telegram: Tarrant DA asks AG if custody investigation law applies only to deaths within jail walls
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Fort Worth Star Telegram: Texas jail commission begins appointing outside agencies to investigate custody deaths
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Houston Public Media: Harris County DA says intake division changes will ease case backlog, ‘humanitarian crisis’ in jail
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Fort Worth Report: North Texas lawmakers want to reform how jail deaths are investigated. Here’s how
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TJP press conference on bail reform
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Tarrant County missed 30-day deadline to report custody death
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Fort Worth PD doesn’t investigate jail deaths. So how did it end up on sheriff’s list?
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Texas jail commission hasn’t complied with custody death investigation law for 7 years
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KPRC2: Family part of push for OAG to force compliance after another detainee dies in HCSO custody
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Abc13: Texas Attorney General’s Office to help get Harris County Jail back into compliance
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Federal judge dismisses Tarrant County from lawsuit in jail death of Anthony Johnson Jr.
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TCJS first quarterly meeting of 2025 calls for action in Harris County
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KERA News: Tarrant County dropped from lawsuit over Anthony Johnson Jr.’s death in custody
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Texas Tribune: Certain criminal suspects would be denied bail under changes OK’d by Texas Senate panel
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KVUE: Trump administration weighs whether to accept Gov. Abbott’s offer of military bases, jail cells to help with immigration enforcement efforts
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Families, activists ask state to deem Tarrant County out of compliance for jail deaths
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Houston Landing: Texas attorney general to join efforts to enforce state standards at Harris County Jail
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Recent Tarrant County jail deaths unite groups from both sides of political aisle
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Houston Public Media: Two more Harris County prisoners die in custody, marking first reported jail deaths of 2025
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Houston Public Media: 3 more people died in Harris County Jail, raising 2024’s in-custody death toll to 10
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KERA News: Tarrant County hires a new chief to run the county jail amid lawsuits, outcry over deaths