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 says jail conditions in Georgia’s Fulton County violate detainee rights By KATE BRUMBACK The Associated Press, Updated November 14, 2024, 5:43 p.m.

The Fulton County Jail is seen on August 23, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reached a consent decree with Fulton County over the jail conditions. Joe ...

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." ...

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

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 ...

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 ...