New uniforms, staffing and jail deaths. El Paso County Sheriff Oscar Ugarte faces challenges entering his second year in ...

A federal inmate died after having problems breathing at the El Paso County Jail in Downtown, authorities and public records ...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — El Paso County commissioners approved a series of steps on Monday, Feb. 2 aimed at gathering ...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A federal inmate who had been housed at the El Paso County Detention Facility died on Sunday, Jan. 25 ...

El Paso County Sheriff Oscar Ugarte met residents at a townhall meeting to explain an agreement to work with expanding U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. Dozens of residents attended ...

Over the summer, the El Paso County jail recorded three inmate deaths — all of them were ruled by the county coroner as drug-related accidents. The three are the only recorded jail deaths so far this ...

A Juvenile Probation Department detention officer is charged with bringing a prohibited item into a correctional facility.

A second man was sentenced in connection with the beating death of an inmate at the El Paso County Jail Annex.

An in-custody death happened at the El Paso County Detention Facility, Sheriff Oscar Ugarte says. The federal inmate died the evening of January 25, 2026, after being taken to a local hospital. The sh ...