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Days after announcing the U.S. Department of Justice had reached an agreement with the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office to fix multiple issues at the Fulton County Jail, the consent decree was signed.

Justice Department enters agreement with Georgia's Fulton County to improve jail conditions. Violence and filthy conditions violated constitutional rights of detainees.

The US Justice Department has entered a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia’s Fulton County over jail conditions that federal investigators have described as inhumane, violent and unsanitary.

The Fulton County Jail is seen on August 23, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reached a consent decree with Fulton County over the jail conditions.

The U.S. Department of Justice and Fulton County Sheriff’s Office announced that they’d come to an agreement for steps to correct issues at the Fulton County Jail.

The Fulton County Jail complex, which includes four buildings, was under federal supervision from 2006 to 2015, largely for the very problems identified in the report.

County commissioners scrapped a plan to build a new jail. Instead, they’ll spend a fraction of the cost to renovate the current jail.

Georgia officials violated the rights of people in an overcrowded jail plagued by killings and inhumane conditions, a Justice Department report says.