Those inmates will instead be housed at other local municipal facilities, like Atlanta’s City Detention Center. The policy ...

Fulton County commission chairman Robb Pitts wants the policy to start before the first World Cup matches in Atlanta June 15.

Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat says he will stop accepting people arrested on low-level misdemeanor charges into the ...

In a shift to curb overcrowding, the Fulton County Jail is locking its gates to the majority of misdemeanor offenders this ...

A Fulton County detention officer was stabbed by an inmate at the Rice Street jail around 8 a.m. Tuesday. The officer is recovering and expected to be released from Grady Memorial Hospital after ...

An officer was stabbed by an inmate Tuesday at the Fulton County Jail, authorities confirmed. According to the Fulton County Sheriff's Office, the detention officer was taken to Grady Memorial ...

ATLANTA — A stabbing at the Fulton County Jail that happened in June is gaining attention after an inmate was charged. According to the Fulton County Sheriff's Office, inmate Octavian Williams ...

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 ...

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump says his client, 34-year-old Mohammed, suffered from sepsis because jail staffers ignored his pleas for help. Mohammed says he begged workers in the medical unit for ...