The DOJ launched a civil rights investigation into conditions at the Fulton County Jail after several inmates had died in a matter of weeks. One inmate, according to his family, was 'eaten alive' by bed bugs.
The jail in Georgia 's largest county, Fulton County , leaves its inmates vulnerable to 'substantial risk of serious harm from violence' and violates their constitutional and statutory rights, according to a new Justice Department report released Thursday.
According to the county sheriff, 62% of the jail's inmates suffer from mental health or substance use disorders and the staff failed to provide proper treatment or take steps to mitigate risks of suicide. 'We found that 75% of those who died in the Jail since January 2021 had a current mental health diagnosis or reported a history of mental illness,' the report said.
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