The murder of a Bronx man by his rival in a 2002 drug trafficking scheme has reached the Supreme Court on a seemingly bloodless issue: Should two related portions of the Armed Career Criminal Act be treated for sentencing purposes as parts of a whole, or instead as distinct pieces? Efrain Lora was
Staffing issues, inmates spending more time in holding cells, staff not following medical orders, or seeing inmate patients in a timely matter continue to plague the Harris County Jail, according to a new state inspection report obtained by KPRC 2 Investigates.
Rises in assaults, deaths, and suicides plague the state's 242 jails as the state saw a 9% rise in population numbers. Mentally ill inmates seen by regulators as in 'dire' situation.