A federal investigation has found that Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail is violating the civil rights of people in their custody by failing to protect them from violence, using excessive force, and holding them in filthy and unsafe conditions.
The Justice Department released a 105-page report Thursday, which includes several reforms needed to fix the situation but no immediate legal action for those responsible for the jail’s conditions.
Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general for the department’s Civil Rights Division, said at a news conference that the investigation was launched in July 2023, nearly a year after at least four Black men died in the Rice Street jail’s mental health unit, including two who were killed by their cellmates.
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