Representatives from Congo and Rwanda have signed the text of a peace agreement between the two countries in Washington, according to a joint press release from the two nations and ...

A former Fulton County Jail sergeant was indicted on charges of using a Taser on compliant detainees and falsifying reports ...

Historian Rutger Bregman argues in a new book that people should aspire to “moral ambition” — a mix of idealism and ruthless pragmatism — to make the world a better place.

The long-running gang case involving Atlanta rapper Young Thug will end without a single murder conviction. The rapper, whose real name is Jeffery Williams, and 27 others were indicted more than ...

More than two years after being deployed amid a major staffing crisis, the National Guard is set to leave Florida prisons after this month.

Two inmates, Shon Disola and Benjamin Pike, died in separate incidents at Fulton County Jail within two weeks. Disola died after a medical emergency; Pike was found unresponsive in his cell ...

The man accused of shooting and killing a Roswell police officer pleaded not guilty on Tuesday morning in Fulton County Court ... didn’t want to go back to jail,” said GBI Investigator ...

A third Passaic County correctional officer has pleaded guilty to assaulting a prisoner at the old county jail in Paterson and conspiring to lie about it. Sgt. Jose Gonzalez, 46, pleaded guilty on ...

Two men who had been incarcerated in Fulton County Jail for over a year died in custody last week for unrelated reasons. Devin Franklin, movement policy coordinator for the Southern Center for ...

The GBI is investigating a deadly shooting involving a Fulton County police officer. The officer shot and killed a person who was breaking into a patrol car and then came at them with a metal pipe ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Officials with the Fulton County Jail have confirmed the deaths of two inmates that happened last week. The sheriff’s office says 55-year-old Benjamin Pike ...

The Fulton County ... being held at the jail on a $2,500 bond. The Atlanta Police Department is conducting a death investigation, the sheriff’s office said. The Fulton County Medical Examiner ...