Chasity Congious News Today

Erik Gay pleaded guilty to lying about checking on Javonte Myers, a prisoner who died of a seizure disorder in his cell in 2020.

Tarrant County Commissioners voted unanimously to settle the lawsuit from the family of infant Zenorah Congious and award her family $1.2 million.

The jail’s annual mortality rate exceeded the national average in each of the last four years – though there’s been a steady decline since the pandemic.

Anthony Johnson Jr. died in jail custody last month, after a jailer kneeled on his back. His cause of death has not yet been released.

The recent death of an inmate at the Tarrant County jail has county commissioners taking a closer look at its policies and procedures-- more than 60 deaths over...

Tarrant County commissioners on Tuesday approved a record $1.2 million settlement agreement in a lawsuit filed on behalf of a woman whose baby died 10 days...

County leaders will vote whether to approve a $1.2 million settlement for Chasity Congious.

Tarrant County Commissioners voted unanimously to settle the lawsuit from the family of infant Zenorah Congious and award her family $1.2 million.

The jail’s annual mortality rate exceeded the national average in each of the last four years – though there’s been a steady decline since the pandemic.

Zenorah was barely one week old when doctors took her off life support. She exhaled her last breath in the arms of her grandmother. “I held her until she was, you know,” Kimberly Hammond said. “I held her until she went on and her body was cold. It was like somebody ripped out my soul.” Zenorah’s official cause of