A metro Atlanta family says their loved one was attacked and stabbed by gang members in the Fulton County Jail. The family says 23-year-old Jacob Howard was jumped because he refused to give other ...

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — Understaffed, dangerous and unsupervised: those are some of the words a federal investigator used to describe the ongoing crisis in the Fulton County Jail. The federal report ...

A proposal on Monday to build a new mental and medical health facility at Fulton County’s jail follows a spate of lawsuits filed over the past week detailing the dangerous conditions faced by inmates ...

FULTON COUNTY, GA — A Fulton County Jail inmate is in critical condition following an assault at the Rice Street facility. Authorities say 27-year-old Shania White attacked fellow inmate 20-year-old ...

ATLANTA — A 4-1 vote resulted in Fulton County commissioners advancing plans to fund renovations to the Rice Street jail, which is under federal investigation and a consent decree. The vote also ...

The Fulton County Commission approved a $1.2 billion plan during its Aug. 20 meeting to build a special purpose building for mental and medical health services for inmates, along with complete ...

FULTON COUNTY, GA — A new independent monitor’s report is calling staffing shortages at the Fulton County Jail a “major crisis,” warning that the lack of jail workers is creating dangerous conditions ...

The protests come a week after the U.S. Justice Department's shocking report calling the conditions at the Fulton County Jail "unconstitutional, unlawful and dangerous." ...

ATLANTA — Fulton County has more inmates than jail cells, and the county has been working with the city of Atlanta to house some of its inmates at the Atlanta City Detention Center since 2023, but ...

Atlanta firefighters responded to a small fire at Fulton County Jail early Thursday. Eight people were treated for possible smoke inhalation after trash was found smoldering inside. The cause of the ...