The sheriff’s office said it carried out the shakedown in an area of the jail where deputies have repeatedly found contraband. During the operation, the sheriff’s office said a few inmates did not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...