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Understaffed, dangerous and unsupervised: those are some of the words a federal investigator used to describe the ongoing ...
Atlanta City Council committee to discuss resolution calling for staged withdrawal of Fulton detainees from city jail.
Fulton County leased 700 beds from the city in 2022. That agreement is set to expire in 2026 as the future of the Atlanta ...
A new report by a court-appointed jail monitor states that the Fulton County Jail is severely understaffed, creating safety ...
Federal monitor’s first report finds Fulton County Jail dangerously understaffed, with vacancy rates topping 70% on some ...
Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat addressed Atlanta's City Council Monday, as the city considers ending a deal that lets the ...
A damning report says Fulton County's jail staffing crisis is so bad that unsupervised detainees with makeshift weapons would immediately tear apart any new facility.
Some Atlanta city councilmembers and advocates are calling to begin planning the removal of inmates under the custody of the ...
The Fulton County Jail is on track to receive a $1.2 billion makeover to address issues of overcrowding and unsafe building ...