ATLANTA — The troubled jail in Atlanta where former President Donald Trump surrendered in August is in such bad shape that inmates are able to make weapons from broken flooring and pipes, an attorney for the sheriff’s office told state lawmakers Thursday. But Amelia Joiner also said the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office had made progress in recent months to reduce …
MADISON, Wis. — A group of jail inmates waiting for public defenders to represent them filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking a judge to force the state to assign attorneys to indigent defendants within two weeks of their first court appearance. Antrell Thomas, one of the plaintiffs, alleged that he has been held in the La Crosse County Jail since last …
