The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to a court-enforceable plan with Fulton County, Georgia to address violations of constitutional rights found in the county jail. The agreement aims to resolve issues related to violence, unsanitary conditions, and excessive force.
The U.S. Justice Department announced Friday that it has entered into a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia’s most populous county after finding that violence and filthy conditions in county lockups violated the constitutional rights of people held in jail. The proposed consent decree must still be approved by a judge but would resolve problems found by Justice Department investigators, the agency said in a news release.
Investigators found that jail officials failed to protect detainees from violence, used excessive force and held them in “unconstitutional and illegal conditions”, citing violence, filthy living quarters and the in-custody death of a man whose body was found covered in insects.
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