It became Dallas County's new, contemporary facility to house accused criminals in 1993. Today, close to 7,000 men and women ...

The aging county jail sits on 15 acres of Trinity River frontage, so a new jail would unlock a prime riverfront development ...

County Judge Clay Jenkins says the current facility is facing overcrowding issues and has outlived its usefulness as it is nearly 50 years old. “I think we’ll have the land bought in ’26. And we’ve ...

The Dallas County jail regularly holds more than 6,200 people. And the cost to detain each prisoner has risen. It now costs more than $95 a day to keep someone in Dallas County's Lew Sterrett Justice ...

Dallas County's projected $5 billion jail construction project could take up to a decade to complete, and will focus on ...