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The Fulton County Jail, also referred to as Rice Street, [1] is a prison in Atlanta, Georgia. It was built to hold up to 1,125 prisoners in 1989 but now houses over 3,000. [ 2 ] The US Department of Justice found in 2024 that conditions in the jail were unconstitutionally "inhumane, violent and hazardous".
The US Justice Department has entered a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia’s Fulton County over jail conditions that federal investigators have described as inhumane, violent and unsanitary.
Georgia's Fulton County Jail violates rights of detainees with violence and filth, feds say. Marlene Lenthang. Updated November 14, 2024 at 6:04 PM. The Fulton County Jail in Atlanta on Aug. 23, 2023.
Federal Correctional Institution, Atlanta; Location: Atlanta, Georgia: Coordinates: Status: Operational: Security class: Admin/Low/Minimum/High/Max [1] Low-security FCI with [3+] detention centre[s] (administrative, pre-trial and with additional detention center unit[s]), [2] and also a adjacent minimum security camp for males
Fulton County, Georgia, and its sheriff's office violated the constitutional rights of people housed at the county jail, according to a new report released by the Justice Department on Thursday.
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Sen. Jon Ossoff (D–Ga.), who urged the Justice Department to launch the investigation, said in a press statement that Thursday's report "confirms that abuse at the Fulton County Jail has been ...
Of particular concern to the Federal Bureau of Prisons during the riots was the whereabouts of inmate Thomas Silverstein, who was serving a life sentence at USP Atlanta in an isolation cell, following his murder of Federal Prison Guard Merle E. Clutts, at USP Marion, in October 1983. The Cubans ultimately were able to drug Silverstein, who was ...