FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — At Wednesday’s Fulton County Commission meeting, a five-month extension to a contract for maintaining jail facilities at its three jail locations. Those jail facilities ...

Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat and the county board of commissioners argue that transferring more inmates would help alleviate overcrowding at the county jail. The dilapidated Fulton County ...

ATLANTA — Republicans in a Georgia Senate committee advanced a bill Wednesday that would force the city of Atlanta to allow the Fulton County sheriff to use the city jail for no more than the ...

Thirty-two people have died in Fulton County custody since 2021, according to the sheriff’s office. That includes two deaths in the city jail, where the county already uses about 350 beds under ...