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ARCHIVE: Atlanta – 3 April 2015
1. Various exterior of Fulton County Jail
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Atlanta – 14 November 2025
2 . SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Clarke, US Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights:
"In 2023 alone, we identified 314 stabbings and more than 8000 assaults. This rate of violence exceeds what we’ve seen in other cities across the country. The Fulton County Jail had as many stabbings in a single month as the Miami Dade County Jail had all year. And that’s a facility with one and a half times more people. Since 2022, six people in the jail have lost their lives to violence."
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ARCHIVE: Atlanta – 3 April 2015
3. Various exterior of Fulton County Jail
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Atlanta – 14 November 2025
4 . SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Clarke, US Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights:
"Living conditions at the jail are hazardous, and unsanitary housing units are flooded from broken toilets, roaches, rodents and pests abound. Standing water exposed wiring and vermin make living areas unsafe. The jail does not provide enough food, leaving people severely malnourished. The jail fails to provide constitutionally adequate medical and mental health care to people at the jail, exposing people to preventable bad outcomes, including injury, seriousness, illness, pain and suffering, mental health decline and even death."
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ARCHIVE: Atlanta – 24 August 2023
5. Fulton County sign at driveway entrance
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Atlanta – 14 November 2025
6 . SOUNDBITE (English) Ryan Buchanan, US Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia:
"Those numbers only reflect the reported attacks. Many detainees told our team that- they explained that they feared for their safety. They were reported that they had been stabbed or assaulted. One such detainee was left untreated for multiple stab wounds for a week until our team alerted the jail of his injuries. Also unaccounted for in these disturbing numbers are numerous allegations of violent rape, sexual assault and harassment."
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ARCHIVE: Atlanta – 24 August 2023
6. Fulton County sign at driveway entrance
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Atlanta – 14 November 2025
7 . SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Clarke, US Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights:
"They are set forth in the back section of our report. They include improving staffing and security using a housing and classification system. Reducing contraband through increased oversight, improving the physical conditions of the jail. Ensuring that medical and mental health care is constitutionally adequate and ensuring appropriate use of restrictive housing to avoid serious risks associated with isolation. So in short, we can fix these problems. And we are pleased that Fulton County has pledged to cooperate with us in doing so in the road ahead."
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ARCHIVE: Atlanta – 18 June 2020
8. Exterior of Fulton county jail
STORYLINE:
U.S. Justice Department officials said jail officials in Georgia’s most populous county violate the constitutional rights of people in their custody by failing to protect them from violence, using excessive force and holding them in filthy and unsafe conditions.
In a report released Thursday, federal officials said vulnerable populations are particularly at risk from this violence which causes both physical injury and long-lasting trauma.
The Justice Department offered remedial actions local officals can take to address the problems.
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