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Harris County Jail
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County jail in Hamilton. Listed on the GDC locations directory.
Background
The government of Harris County, Texas maintains its main jail complex in Downtown Houston, Texas. The complex, operated by the Harris County Sheriff's Office (HCSO), lies in the peninsula formed by the Buffalo Bayou in Northern Downtown. While most of the complex is based on county jails serving Harris County, Joe Kegans State Jail is also located within the complex. The Harris County District Court is located just next to the jail complex.
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Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 30 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
County sheriff's officePopulation held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
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Region
GA
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
9825 State Highway 116, Hamilton 31811
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
11/100
Low concern11/100
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 1/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 10/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · 1 oversight report in the last 5 years
- · Multiple in-custody-death signals in sources
This facility scores 11. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 9 points above national average.
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Reports
- marshall-project23 Sept 2021
s Spin Out of Control Could changes in jailers’ attitudes lead to better jail conditions and fewer deaths? Anjali Nair/NBC News Sheriff Ed Gonzalez inherited a mess at the Harris County Jail when he took office in 2017. The Houston lockup was known for a culture of abuse, with beatings , suicides and sexual assaults . But Gonzalez promised change . He put in place new leadership, advocated
- marshall-project19 Jan 2021
lternatives. “There’s a lot of reasons why agencies could see advantages here, but what they need to understand is what’s lost,” Deitch said. “Nothing replaces human touch.” The Harris County Jail has dealt with its share of problems in recent months: lawsuits , crowding , a citation for not checking prisoners enough and a major Covid-19 outbreak. But over the years it has also had an eye toward
Data completeness
50%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- GDC location â Harris County Jail
- GDC locations directory
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Georgia Department of Corrections â Locations — State of Georgia
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q24887914)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Harris County Jail. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/harris-county-jail
Chicago
"Harris County Jail." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/harris-county-jail.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-harris-county-jail,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Harris County Jail},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/harris-county-jail},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}