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 ...

Justice Department Enters Consent Decree With Fulton County Over Jail Conditions “This consent order is a road map to a better future for our facility, staff, and the individuals entrusted to ...

ATLANTA — 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 force ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Justice Department in July 2023 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 ...

Federal authorities cited the September 2022 death of 35-year-old Lashawn Thompson in a bedbug-infested cell in the Fulton County Jail’s psychiatric wing, noting that an independent autopsy ...

The U.S. Justice Department announced that it has entered into a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia’s most populous county after finding that violence and filthy conditions in county ...