The US Justice Department has entered a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia’s Fulton County over jail conditions that federal investigators have described as inhumane, violent and unsanitary.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers are renewing efforts to pass legislation supporting Georgia, touting it as one of the best and first examples of bipartisan unity of the new Congress.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that it has reached a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia's largest county ... consent order is a road map to a better future for ...

Dec. 31 (UPI) --Effingham County, Ga., Judge Stephen Yekel died by suicide while inside a county courtroom where he was slated to serve his last day on the bench on Tuesday. An Effingham County ...