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News Articles: Fulton County Jail

The Fulton County Jail is shown April 11, 2023, in Atlanta.

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Women sue over Georgia law that added cash bail requirements for misdemeanors

Two women behind bars in Atlanta have sued the state of Georgia over a recent law that added a cash bail requirement for more crimes. The lawsuit accuses the state of violating people's constitutional rights to due process when they're accused of crimes that require cash bail due to last year's Senate Bill 63.

May 05, 2025
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The Fulton County Jail is shown April 11, 2023, in Atlanta.

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Judge appoints monitor to oversee agreement to reform Georgia's Fulton County Jail

A federal judge has appointed a lead monitor with three decades of experience in corrections to oversee a consent decree meant to address dangerous and unhealthy jail conditions in Georgia's most populous county.

February 24, 2025
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FILE - Vehicles are parked outside the Fulton County Jail, April 11, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Kate Brumback, File)

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Justice Department enters consent decree with Fulton County over jail conditions

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 conditions in county lockups violated the constitutional rights of people held in jail.

January 03, 2025
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The Fulton County Jail is shown April 11, 2023, in Atlanta.

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Justice Department says jail conditions in Georgia's Fulton County violate detainee rights

U.S. Justice Department officials said jail officials in Georgia's most populous county violate the constitutional rights of people in their custody by failing to protect them from violence, using excessive force and holding them in filthy and unsafe conditions.

November 14, 2024
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Fulton County Jail detention officers targeted in murder-for-hire conspiracy

Six people have been indicted in a murder-for-hire conspiracy targeting two Fulton County Jail detention officers.

November 07, 2024
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  • Bob Pepalis
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Georgia Senate hands down Fulton County Jail recommendations

A special Georgia Senate subcommittee investigating the Fulton County Jail made 17 recommendations for the Fulton County Commission, sheriff, district attorney, clerk of courts, and the Fulton Superior Court.

August 26, 2024
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  • Bob Pepalis
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'People are going to continue to die.' Fulton sheriff responds to scaled-back jail renovation plans

Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat spoke out Friday against a decision by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners not to rebuild the Fulton County Jail.

July 15, 2024
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  • Amanda Andrews
Advocates protest the Fulton Jail

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Prison reform advocates oppose proposed new Fulton County jail

The Prison Policy Initiative released a report Wednesday that argues against the need for a new jail in Fulton County. 

June 12, 2024
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Bail Project, blaming state law, ceases operations in Georgia

The Bail Project says because of Senate Bill 63, which adds new restrictions on charitable bail funds and new crimes that require cash bail, it's stopping its work in Georgia effective Monday.

June 10, 2024
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  • Peter Biello
Fulton County officials estimate it will cost $1.7 billion to replace the overcrowded Fulton County Jail that opened in 1989.

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Georgia Senate panel considers solutions to ease overcrowding at local jails

Within six months of the Muscogee County Jail opening a new wing a few years ago, the jail was already filled to capacity. During the three-hour hearing Monday, the panel listened to testimony about the public defender’s role in decreasing overcrowding in jails like the lockups in Muscogee and Fulton counties.

April 30, 2024
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GPB evening headlines for April 12, 2024

Georgia will receive $25 million dollars to share with select public water utilities to help them test and begin treating drinking water with dangerous forever chemicals. 

The US Postal Service will be the subject of a U.S. Senate Homeland Security hearing Tuesday next week. 

Another incarcerated man has died at the Fulton County Jail.

April 12, 2024
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks in the Fulton County Government Center during a news conference, Monday, Aug. 14, 2023, in Atlanta. Donald Trump and several allies have been indicted in Georgia over efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.

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Fulton DA Fani Willis sued over incarcerated people waiting in jail without indictments

The Atlanta nonprofit Barred Business Foundation is suing Fulton County DA Fani Willis for allegedly failing to inform a judge when someone is held in jail on felony charges without being indicted for longer than 45 days.

March 21, 2024
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  • Peter Biello
The Fulton County Jail is shown April 11, 2023, in Atlanta.

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Man dies after he was found unresponsive in cell at problem-plagued jail in Atlanta

Authorities said a man who was being held at the problem-plagued Fulton County Jail in Atlanta has died at a hospital after he was found unresponsive in his cell.

January 10, 2024
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Chief magistrate decision would increase Fulton jail overcrowding, officials say

The ACLU of Georgia and the Southern Center for Human Rights shared suggestions to deal with overcrowding at the embattled Fulton County Jail and police violence in Atlanta in a joint press conference on Thursday.

December 15, 2023
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  • Bob Pepalis
The Fulton County Jail is shown April 11, 2023, in Atlanta.

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Young Thug trial on pause until January after co-defendant is stabbed in jail

The trial for rapper Young Thug and five other people is on pause until early next year after one of the defendants was stabbed in the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta.

December 12, 2023
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