FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — Fulton County's chief magistrate court judge is sounding the alarm over shrinking budgets. Judge Cassandra Kirk is asking the County Board of Commissioners for more money to ...

"Fulton County Jail fails to adequately protect incarcerated people from the substantial risk of serious harm from violence, ...

Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat has consistently raised concerns about overcrowding, dilapidated infrastructure and staffing ...

The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division announced that conditions in Georgia’s Fulton County Jail violate the Constitution. In a report, the DOJ said the jail’s conditions of ...

The Fulton County Jail in Georgia is seen on April 11, 2023. On November 14, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice said that conditions inside the Fulton County jail violate inmate rights.

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice released the results of its investigation into conditions at the Fulton County Jail. They say inmates inside the jail had their ...

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — A monitoring team in place in Fulton County for the 2024 election found that it was run in a "smooth, transparent, and well-organized way," The Carter Center announced on ...

The jail in Georgia's largest county, Fulton County, leaves its inmates vulnerable to "substantial risk of serious harm from violence" and violates their constitutional and statutory rights ...

A Georgia state Senate committee formed last year to examine jail conditions in Fulton County concluded in August that county officials needed to do more to work together to address problems at ...

Fulton County, Georgia, and its sheriff's office violated the constitutional rights of people housed at the county jail, according to a new report released by the Justice Department on Thursday.