Report also finds violations of Americans with Disabilities Act, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act | County has 49 ...

The legal agreement with the DOJ mandates jail upgrades, but leaves the deadlines to the implementation schedule.

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — Understaffed, dangerous and unsupervised: those are some of the words a federal investigator used to describe the ongoing crisis in the Fulton County Jail. The federal report ...

ATLANTA — Fulton County has more inmates than jail cells, and the county has been working with the city of Atlanta to house some of its inmates at the Atlanta City Detention Center since 2023, but ...

The Fulton County Commission approved a $1.2 billion plan during its Aug. 20 meeting to build a special purpose building for mental and medical health services for inmates, along with complete ...

ATLANTA, GA — Local advocates are demanding the city of Atlanta draw up a plan to move out Fulton County inmates being housed at the city’s detention center. A 2022 agreement between the city and ...