Fulton County commissioners voted to take back $2.1 million they previously allotted to the sheriff for new technology to improve conditions at the beleaguered county jail.
In April, commissioners gave Sheriff Pat Labat more than $5 million in emergency funding following the high-profile death of a 35-year-old man, Lashawn Thompson, whose body was found covered in bed bugs in the psychiatric wing of the county jail.
Labat said some of the funds would go toward implementing the Talitrix system at the main jail on Rice Street. The system uses wristbands to allow jail staff to track inmates in the medical and psychiatric observation units.
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