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The trial began on September 29, 2014, presided over by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter. It was the longest criminal trial in Georgia history, lasting eight months. [10] The lead prosecutor was Fani Willis. [11] Before the end of the trial, the superintendent at the center of the scandal, Beverly Hall, died of breast cancer ...
Clayton County Prison Lovejoy: Medium 242 Adult males Colquitt County Prison: Moultrie: Medium 190 Adult males Coweta County Prison Newnan: Medium 232 Adult males Decatur County Prison Bainbridge: Minimum 135 Adult males Effingham County Prison Springfield: Medium 192 Adult males Floyd County Prison Rome: Medium 424 Adult males Gwinnett County ...
The number of inmates locked in the main jail has fallen from nearly 2,600 a year ago to just over 1,600 today, although the county's overall jail population has fallen by less, as it now houses ...
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.
An earlier example is the Marlborough School where an investigation that ended in 2014 [37] found that the sexual harassment claims of a former teacher by a student did have merit and that there was a "'pattern of misconduct' by the teacher and 'mistakes in judgment' by top school officials, leading to the resignation of the school’s chief ...
Tremar Harris filed a federal civil lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia against three corrections officers with the Appling County Sheriff’s Office.
Typical examples include the honor-roll student being expelled from school under a "no weapons" policy while in possession of nail clippers, [39] or for possessing "drugs" like cough drops and dental mouthwash or "weapons" like rubber bands. [1] A related criticism is that zero-tolerance policies make schools feel like a jail or a prison.