More than a month after releasing a scathing report on Fulton County Jail, the U.S. Department of Justice has filed an official complaint against the sheriff’s office, and proposed a plan to solve ...

In September 2022, Lashawn Thompson, a man with a history of mental illness, died alone in a filthy cell in the mental health unit of the Fulton County Jail. Thompson, who had been held on a ...

who was unhoused and had a history of mental health conditions, was found “slumped over with his head on his toilet” inside his cell in the Fulton County Jail’s mental health unit ...

Before the commissioners were a mixture of new and old business items, including two related to issues at the Fulton County Jail. The two items related to the Fulton County Jail were a request for ...

Police say the metro Atlanta man recorded himself torturing a dog for months until the animal was left paralyzed. He's now in ...

“Our topline goal with this consent decree is to bring the Fulton County Jail within compliance with the U.S. Constitution and federal law,” U.S. Attorney Ryan Buchanan said in an interview Frida ...

The Fulton County Sheriff's Office fails to protect jail detainees from violence by other inmates, including stabbings, sexual assaults and homicides, according to a detailed federal report ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on ... 2023 opened a civil rights investigation into jail conditions in Fulton County, citing violence, filthy living quarters and ...

ATLANTA — 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 ...