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Two Fulton County Jail inmates died in the past week, Sheriff Patrick Labat’s office said, with the deaths coming just months after the county reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice ...
The inmates' deaths came months after the Department of Justice released a report finding that violence and filthy conditions ...
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 ...
Two men who had been incarcerated in Fulton County Jail for over a year died in custody last week for unrelated reasons. Shon ...
The county will identify 150 people who can be released from the jail with free ankle monitoring in order to reduce ...
Dominique Grant said she was in the middle of a mental health crisis when she was pulled over driving on Moreland Avenue by a ...
Of the four inmates who escaped Wednesday night from the Fulton County Jail ... officers from the Peoria Police Department, the Peoria County Sheriff's Office and the U.S. Marshals Fugitive ...
Last year, a Justice Department investigation found "dehumanizing" filth and violence at the Fulton County ... periods in appalling conditions." In one Texas county jail, three people died of ...
County officials have budgeted nearly $1 billion for a replacement facility, which officials say will address the jail’s substandard conditions ... A consent decree with the U.S. Justice Department, ...