The U.S. Department of Justice released the findings of its investigation into the Fulton County Jail on Thursday. The nearly 100-page summary details how the jail violated “the constitutional ...

The Justice Department has found that egregious conditions at Georgia’s Fulton County Jail — including pest infestation, malnourishment, a lack of adequate medical care and rampant violence ...

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 ...

The jail in Georgia's largest county, Fulton County, leaves its inmates vulnerable to "substantial risk of serious harm from violence" and violates their constitutional and statutory rights ...

Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat keeps asking for a new county jail even after a consent decree agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice because repair and maintenance efforts don’t go far ...

The Fulton County Jail in Atlanta unconstitutionally subjects inmates to “inhumane, violent and hazardous conditions” that threaten their safety, a US Justice Department official said Thursday ...

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. - A court-enforceable agreement has been reached to address unconstitutional and inhumane conditions at the Fulton County Jail, following an investigation by the U.S. Department ...

For years, Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat and other local officials have pitched a new $1.7 billion jail as an antidote to the tide of deaths and dysfunction within the current county jail.

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 ...

Protesters are planning to rally on Thursday over the conditions at the Fulton County Jail. Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice released a report saying they found the situation at the ...

Fulton County has been trying for the past two decades, on and off, to buy the city’s jail, but those talks have fallen through time and again. The city’s current mayor, Andre Dickens ...

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 ...