Dallas will delay its first installment of an $8.7 million payment to Dallas County for jail services by at least a month after council members raised concerns about the contract and persistent ...

After consistently teetering around capacity, the Dallas County Jail exceeded the maximum number of inmates it can hold for the first time in two decades over Labor Day weekend, said Dallas County ...

Cynthia Willis, of Dallas, poses for a portrait at White Rock Lake on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025, in Dallas. Willis was held in the Dallas County jail for 46 days beyond when her charges were resolved due ...

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 ...

The North Tower Detention Facility of the Lew Sterrett Justice Center in Dallas in August 2022. Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer Dallas will delay its first installment of an $8.7 million payment to ...