The sheriff’s office said it happened early Tuesday morning. The office says Alexis Jovany Cardenas was released from custody at 12:50 a.m. and was being escorted to an exit door when he physically resisted detention officers as they attempted to walk him outside the building.

A grieving mother says she won’t stop fighting for justice in her son’s murder, no matter how long it takes, but for the first time she’s hopeful.

Another inmate has died at the Harris County Jail this year, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.

A man who died Tuesday after being rushed by ambulance to the hospital from the Harris County Jail, will not be labeled an “in-custody death” because the man was technically released from the jail before he died.

The Harris County Sheriff’s Office said they are now up to six inmates who have died while in custody at the Harris County Jail this year. Ongoing questions are swirling about how this keeps happening again, and again, and again.

An inmate has been reported dead after apparently suffering from a medical emergency in the Harris County Jail earlier this month.

A Harris County Jail inmate died Sunday at Ben Taub Hospital after being involved in a physical altercation with another inmate late Friday evening, the sheriff’s office said Monday.