Category: Georgia
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Georgia Prison Abuse: DOJ Finds Fulton County Jail Severely Overcrowded
A Justice Department report exposes severe overcrowding, violence, and neglect at Fulton County Jail, highlighting constitutional violations, malnourishment, and inadequate healthcare for inmates, with calls for urgent reform.
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Georgia Prison Abuse: DOJ Threatens To Sue State Over State’s Civil Rights Violations In Prisons
An Oct. 1 announcement by the Department of Justice says Georgia prisons are “deliberately indifferent” to unchecked deadly violence, widespread drug use, extortion and sexual abuse at state lockups. If the state doesn’t act quickly to correct these civil rights violations, it will face a lawsuit.