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CNN — The Fulton County Jail in Atlanta unconstitutionally subjects inmates to “inhumane, violent and hazardous conditions” that threaten their safety, a US Justice Department official said Thursday, announcing the results of a 16-month investigation. “Detention in the Fulton County Jail has amounted to a death sentence for dozens of people who have been murdered or who died as a …

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ATLANTA — The sheriff in a Georgia county where prison conditions have led to a federal civil rights investigation criticized a decision not to move forward with plans for a new jail, calling the vote “shortsighted” on Friday. The U.S. Department of Justice opened a civil rights investigation last year over longstanding problems with jail conditions in the county. “This …

LOADING ERROR LOADING When former President Donald Trump and 18 others appear to be arraigned on the charges listed Monday in the Georgia indictment over election interference, they are expected to be booked at a notoriously filthy and grim Atlanta jail that the Justice Department has been investigating. Stinson was found in his cell unresponsive with “no obvious signs of …

Justice Department to investigate jail conditions in Georgia’s most populous county

ATLANTA — The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into jail conditions in Georgia’s most populous county, with officials citing violence, filthy conditions and the death last year of a man whose body was found covered in insects. Investigators will look at living conditions, access to medical and mental health care, use of excessive force by …

ATLANTA — The family of a man who died in a bedbug-infested cell in a Georgia jail’s psychiatric wing is calling for the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the facility. This is criminal,” Crump said as he held up a photo of Thompson’s dirty, trash-strewn cell during a news conference and rally Thursday in front of the jail. The medical …