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The jail received media attention from the August 24, 2023 mug shot booking of former president Donald Trump. [8] In August 2023, the Fulton County Board of Commissioners approved plans to find the funding for a new $1.7 billion facility to replace the Fulton County Jail. [9] The new facility is planned to have a 4,500 bed capacity. [10]
The Justice Department has found that egregious conditions at Georgia’s Fulton County Jail — including pest infestation, malnourishment, a lack of adequate medical care and rampant violence ...
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.Last ...
Bleckley Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Center Cochran: 208 Adult females Colwell Probation Detention Center Blairsville: 271 Adult males Emanuel Probation Detention Center Twin City: 369 Adult males McEver Probation Detention Center Perry: 235 Adult males Patten Probation Detention Center Lakeland: 252 Adult males Paulding Probation ...
There is growing alarm about Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail after the 10th inmate death at the facility this year amid an ongoing DOJ probe into longtime issues of overcrowding and sanitation. But ...
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.
In the 1980s, USP Atlanta was used as a detention center for Cuban refugees from the Mariel Boatlift who were ineligible for release into American society. USP Atlanta was formerly one of several facilities, including the Federal Transfer Center, Oklahoma City, that were used to house prisoners who are being transferred between prisons.
(The Center Square) – The deaths of at least four Georgia men with mental disabilities at the Fulton County Jail are "symptomatic of a pattern of dangerous and dehumanizing conditions," the U.S ...