The sheriff and board of commissioners chairman expressed optimism despite a damning report from the Department of Justice.

A federal investigation has found that Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail is violating the civil rights of people in their custody ...

“I most definitely want to see criminal charges,” Brad Mcrae, Thompson’s brother, said. Thompson, who suffered from mental ...

President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has chosen two members of his personal criminal defense team to fill key roles at the Justice Department.

Fulton County officials fail to protect jail inmates from violence, using excessive force and holding them in filthy and unsafe conditions, U.S. Justice Department officials say.

“We can not turn a blind eye to the unlawful and inhumane conditions inside the Fulton County jail” The Department Of Justice ...

Jail officials in Georgia’s most populous county are violating the constitutional rights of people in their custody by ...

In a blunt report released on Thursday, the department said officials in Fulton County have had “deliberate indifference to ...

The Appeal and other news outlets spent years reporting on dangerous conditions inside Atlanta, Georgia's Fulton County Jail.

ATLANTA (AP) — Justice Department finds that Georgia’s Fulton County fails to adequately protect jail inmates from violence.

Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat holds a press conference in response to a United States Department of Justice released on ...