ECTOR COUNTY, Texas — Jayda Floyd, an Ector County juvenile probation officer and the girlfriend of fallen Odessa Police ...

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ODESSA, Texas (KOSA) - A flu outbreak in the Ector County jail has caused the jail to be closed to visitors until Tuesday, February 11th. It’s important to know that if someone is arrested, they ...

ECTOR COUNTY, Texas — Ector County has been dealing with an employee shortage for a few years now and that includes the Ector County Detention Center. "Probably the last four or five years we we ...

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ECTOR COUNTY, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- The Ector County jail has temporarily closed to visitation amid a rise of flu cases among inmates in the facility. Sheriff Mike Griffis said the decision was made ...

Just about all of those things went wrong in Ector County this year. In the last five years, the facility, which can house up to 667 inmates, reported seven escapes. Five occurred on two separate ...