Justice Department enters agreement with Georgia's Fulton County to improve jail conditions. Violence and filthy conditions violated constitutional rights of detainees.

The DOJ entered into a court-enforceable agreement with Fulton County after finding that violence and filthy conditions in the jail violated constitutional rights.

ATLANTA (AP) — Jail officials in Georgia’s most populous county are violating the constitutional rights of people in their custody by failing to protect them from violence, using excessive fo… ...

Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat issued a statement Monday morning noting that conditions at the Fulton County Jail "continue to deteriorate" following the release of a Justice Department report ...

ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department announced Friday that it has entered into a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia's most populous county after finding that violence and filthy ...

U.S. Justice Department officials said jail officials in Georgia’s most populous county violate the constitutional rights of people in their custody by failing to protect them from violence ...

In July 2023, the Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation into jail conditions in Fulton County, citing violence, filthy living quarters and the in-custody death of a man whose body ...

County officials said they have already started making changes to improve conditions for those in custody and that they look forward to working with the Justice Department to continue that work.