News Justice Department to Investigate Fulton County Jail Conditions Investigators will look at living conditions, access to medical and mental health care, use of excessive force by staff and ...

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 Jail is seen on April 2, 2013, in Atlanta. The Justice Department announced that it has opened a civil investigation into the conditions at the facility.

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." ...

The U.S. Justice Department has weighed in on a lawsuit alleging deplorable conditions for mentally ill female inmates at a south Fulton County jail. In a court filing on Thursday, U.S. Attorney ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a civil rights investigation into the jail conditions in Fulton County, Georgia, the state's most populous county.

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 ...

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