Most residents of Bexar County probably don't often think about what happens to arrested people - until it happens to themselves or a loved one. Yet the way the criminal justice system processes ...

SAN ANTONIO - Newly elected Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones called on city and county officials to investigate what she deemed the "unprecedented" "leak" of video showing District 8 Councilwoman Ivalis Meza ...

For the first time in more than two years, Irving officials will let judges set bail for all detainees in city' detention ...

Editor's note: This story was updated to correctly identify the type of judge who determines whether probable cause for an arrest exists. The city of Austin might soon change what happens after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arrestees appear in front of Judge Michael Ramos, who presides over a magistrate court at the Municipal Court building on Aug.12. ...

Darryl Valadez’s death in December did not count. This isn’t to say his life didn’t matter. But his death Dec. 9 is not part of the official tally for the Bexar County Adult Detention Center. He is ...

A program to provide free legal representation to poor people at the Travis County Jail was recently put on pause by Sheriff Sally Hernandez over staffing concerns. Now, the sheriff’s office, the ...

While city and county elected officials have been looking for ways early in the booking process to keep people out of jail who don’t need to be there, emails obtained by the Chronicle through a public ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Police Department (APD) wants to transition to a more virtual process of booking people into the jail. Here’s how the process would work: Instead of having to come downtown ...

San Antonio’s mayor and City Council members are zeroing in on a glitch in Bexar County’s criminal justice system that costs taxpayers millions every year — and is also at the heart of a six-year ...