After news of the flu outbreak in the jail, their medical department advised them to shut down for multiple days.

ECTOR COUNTY, Texas — All visitation at the Ector County Jail will be temporarily closed due to a flu outbreak within the ...

The Ector County jail has temporarily closed to visitation amid a rise of flu cases among inmates in the facility. Sheriff ...

to the west of the Ector County Detention Center, to be new grounds for additional plots. While this was not a unanimous decision as only myself, Commissioner Hall, and Commissioner Gardner voted ...

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After being indicted for the distributing charge, Dennis Matias had a court date in December of 2024 that he failed to show up to. On Thursday, he was rearrested.

An Odessa man who pleaded guilty to two counts of Intoxication Manslaughter last week was sentenced by an Ector County jury ...

Hoisington was later booked into the Ector County jail. Texas Department of Public Safety records show Hoisington was convicted of sexual assault of a 16-year-old child in Harris County in 2001 and ...

The woman remains in the Ector County jail on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold. Yanira Maria Toirac Prado, 22, was arrested in early December two months after Odessa police officers and ...