ANDERSON — The first cell block pods at the new Madison County Jail are being set in place this week. The pods were built in ...

The potential 12.5% increase centers around the Fulton County Jail, and a plan to address problems that have long plagued it.

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.

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.

U.S. Justice Department officials said jail officials in Georgia’s most populous county violate the constitutional rights of people in their custody by failing to protect them from violence ...

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

Dino Walker was reportedly left stabbed and bleeding on the floor of the Fulton County Jail after a deputy left his post for about an hour.

Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat on Friday called plans to renovate the Fulton County Jail rather than building a new, $1.7 billion facility “shortsighted,” and said he thinks a Justice ...