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News Articles: Jails

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Fulton County considers outsourcing to other facilities after deaths of 10 inmates

The county is looking at jails in other parts of Georgia and in Mississippi.

September 12, 2023
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  • Donna Lowry
In this screenshot taken from Camden County Detention Center surveillance video provided by attorney Harry Daniels, jailers beat detainee Jarrett Hobbs at the facility, in Georgia, on Sept. 3, 2022.

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Justice Department should investigate beatings at Georgia jail, attorney says

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.

May 31, 2023
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Lashawn Thompson, 35, died in the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta in September 2022. His family's attorney, Michael Harper, said Thompson's body was covered with insect bite marks.

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Crump says Kaepernick to pay for autopsy for inmate who died in 'appalling conditions'

The former NFL quarterback is assisting the family of Lashawn Thompson, a Georgia jail inmate who died last year while covered in insects, civil rights attorney Ben Crump said.

April 21, 2023
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  • Juliana Kim
Ben Crump speaks at a news conference in April in New York City. On Monday, the civil rights attorney called on the Justice Department to launch an investigation into inmate deaths at the Harris County Jail in Houston.

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Dozens of inmates have died in a Houston jail since 2021. Now the FBI is investigating

Dozens of inmates have died while in custody at the Harris County Jail, according to attorneys representing victims' families. The FBI has opened civil rights investigations into two of the deaths.

February 15, 2023
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  • Giulia Heyward
Matt Butler performing at the Central Utah Correctional Facility.

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Matt Butler has played concerts in more than 50 prisons and jails

"Reckless Son" is a one-man show by singer/songwriter Matt Butler inspired by the convicts he's met while touring American prisons and jails.

January 31, 2023
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  • Phil Harrell and
  • Leila Fadel
Police body camera recordings show interactions between Columbus police officers and Muscogee County Sheriff’s deputies during a conflict over booking prisoners at the jail in July 2022.

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Columbus police chief and sheriff sparred over jail operations before July standoff, emails show

On July 16, a dispute sparked a standoff between Columbus police officers and county deputies at the Muscogee County Jail. But the city police department and county sheriff’s office disagreed over crime suppression details long before that.

August 25, 2022
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  • Tim Chitwood
Person in jail

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Georgia House panel advances cash bail bill as clock winds down on 2022 Legislature

On Thursday, Republican members of the House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee advanced a plan that adds hundreds of felony charges to the list of violent crimes that require a bond in order for a person to be released from jail before trial.

April 01, 2022
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  • Stanley Dunlap
Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill (pictured left) is being sued by the SCHR and ACLU of Georgia for not disclosing documents about COVID-19 in the county jail.

ACLU, Southern Center File Lawsuit Against Clayton County Sheriff For Lack Of COVID-19 Transparency

The Southern Center for Human Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia filed a lawsuit against Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill...

May 28, 2020
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  • Ben Abrams

Women Behind Bars

A new report by the Vera Institute of Justice found the number of women in local jails is almost 14 times what it was in the 1970s, making it the...

August 25, 2016
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  • Celeste Headlee and
  • Linda Chen

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