Atlanta City Council committee to discuss resolution calling for staged withdrawal of Fulton detainees from city jail.

Understaffed, dangerous and unsupervised: those are some of the words a federal investigator used to describe the ongoing ...

Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat, who has long advocated for a new county jail, predicts the Rice Street jail renovation will be overbudget and take too long.

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 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.

The proposal includes building a new 3,200-bed special-purpose facility dedicated to mental and medical health needs, while ...

During the monitor team’s tour of the Fulton County Jail, “most floors in the main jail were staffed with only one deputy or ...

A new report by a court-appointed jail monitor states that the Fulton County Jail is severely understaffed, creating safety ...

FULTON COUNTY, GA — A new independent monitor’s report is calling staffing shortages at the Fulton County Jail a “major ...

The Fulton County Jail has come under fire in recent years for severe overcrowding, crumbling infrastructure and unsafe conditions. Federal investigators say inmates are frequently exposed to violence ...