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ARCHIVE: Atlanta – 3 April 2015
1. Various exterior of Fulton County Jail
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Atlanta – 14 November 2025
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2 . SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Clarke, Assistant US 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
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4 . SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Clarke, Assistant US Attorney General for Civil Rights:
" The remedial measures that we think the jail can put in place – 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 – 24 August 2023
5. Various of Fulton County Jail sign at driveway entrance
STORYLINE:
Jail officials in Georgia’s most populous county are violating 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, U.S. Justice Department officials said Thursday.
The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office doesn’t adequately protect jail detainees from violence by other detainees, including stabbings, sexual abuse and killings, federal officials contend in a lengthy report that details alleged abuses and offers remedial actions that can be taken. Vulnerable populations, including people who are gay, transgender, young or who have serious mental illness, are particularly at risk from the violence, which causes physical injury and long-lasting trauma, the report says.
“Our investigation finds longstanding, unconstitutional, unlawful and dangerous conditions that jeopardize the lives and well-being of the people held there,” Kristen Clarke, assistant US Attorney General for civil rights, said at a news conference in Atlanta.
The report resulted from a federal investigation launched in July 2023 to examine living conditions, access to medical and mental health care, use of excessive force by staff, and conditions that may give rise to violence between people held in jails in the county, which includes most of Atlanta.
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