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

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, and holding ...

The protests come a week after the U.S. Justice Department's shocking report calling the conditions at the Fulton County Jail "unconstitutional, unlawful and dangerous." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...