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.
The family of a man with a history of mental illness who died in the custody of the Bibb County Jail says they are still waiting for answers about how he died.
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.
Authorities say a Georgia prison guard shot and killed a prisoner she had escorted to a hospital for treatment after he snatched another guard's pepper spray and used it to overpower him.
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.
Georgia U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff shared on Wednesday that he is calling for Attorney General Merrick Garland to launch a Department of Justice investigation on Clayton County's jail examining the mistreatment of inmates
Authorities said one person died and at least two others were injured when they were stabbed Thursday at a violent and problem-plagued jail in Atlanta that is already under federal investigation.
Lawyers for the family of a man who died in a bedbug-infested cell in a Georgia jail's psychiatric wing say they've reached a settlement with the county. Lashawn Thompson died in September, three months after he was booked into the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta.
The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into jail conditions in Georgia’s most populous county, with officials citing violence, filthy conditions and the death last year of a man whose body was found covered in insects.
A civil rights attorney and a local NAACP president are calling for the U.S. Justice Department to investigate what they're calling the systemic abuse of detainees at a county jail in Georgia.
An independent autopsy released by lawyers for the family of a man who died in a bedbug-infested cell in a Georgia jail's psychiatric wing says that he "died due to severe neglect." Lashawn Thompson died in September, three months after he was booked into the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta.
The family of a man who died in a bedbug-infested cell in a Georgia jail's psychiatric wing is calling for a U.S. Justice Department investigation of the facility. Nationally known civil rights attorney Ben Crump represents the family of Lashawn Thompson, who died in September, three months after being booked into the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta
A Georgia sheriff on Monday announced the resignations of top jail staff amid an investigation into the death of a man in a bedbug-infested cell in the jail's psychiatric wing.
The fight for answers involving inmate deaths at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center continues this week as residents and activists call conditions...
