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The 105-page report details the serious conditions at the jail —described as long-standing, filthy and dangerous — as well as remedial measures Fulton County officials should implement. Fulton ...
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.
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.
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 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 ...
People held in Fulton County are “predominantly people of color," she said, adding that data shows 87% of the jail population is Black. “This is a racial justice issue,” Clarke said.
The Department of Justice opened an investigation last month into the conditions at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, where Trump will be booked. 'Unsafe, unsanitary' conditions reported at ...
Fulton County’s main jail, which opened in 1989 in a neighborhood west of downtown Atlanta, has been plagued by overcrowding, unsanitary conditions and violence. Ten people have died in Fulton ...