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Inmate Name Register Number Photo Status Details Willie Aikens: 01732-031: Released in 2008 after serving 14 years. Former Major League Baseball player; convicted in 1994 of selling crack-cocaine. [9] Denny McLain: 04000-018: Released from custody in 1988 after serving 29 months.
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".
S.M.U. Special Management Unit at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison [1] Jackson: Special management unit 192 Adult males Telfair State Prison: Helena: Close 1410 Adult males Valdosta State Prison & Annex: Valdosta: Close 1184 Adult males Walker State Prison Rock Spring: Medium 444 Adult males Ware State Prison: Waycross: Close ...
Georgia is one of a handful of states where 17-year-olds are charged as adults, and the Justice Department found this exacerbated the jail's ability to care for inmates. "None of these problems ...
Overall, more than 60 Fulton inmates have died between 2009 and October 2022, the highest total for any jail in Georgia during that time, according to the Journal-Constitution's investigation ...
Investigators determined the jail staff not only failed to protect vulnerable people from extreme physical and sexual violence and allowed inmates to live in "dangerous and unsanitary" conditions ...
The cause of death was hanging. In connection with his death, the jail was issued a notice of non-compliance by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards for failing to properly observe inmates. Jail or Agency: Bell County Jails; State: Texas; Date arrested or booked: UNKNOWN; Date of death: 5/23/2016; Age at death: 45
They were the beneficiaries of the Three Prisons Act of 1891, which established penitentiaries in Leavenworth, Kansas; Atlanta, Georgia; and McNeil Island, Washington. The first two remain open today, the third closed in 1976. The Atlanta site was the largest Federal prison, with a capacity of 3,000 inmates.