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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".
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.
Two years after a mentally ill man died malnourished and covered in insects in Atlanta's Fulton County Jail, a Justice Department investigation has found that man's death was only one of a string ...
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 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’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 ...
(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 ...
The class action stems from a 2014 incident where the Georgia Criminal Information System went down, and Fulton jail administrators refused to release inmates who had made bond or were otherwise ...