The city of Minneapolis has agreed to a federal consent decree mandating reforms to its police department. Under the ...

Days after announcing the U.S. Department of Justice had reached an agreement with the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office to fix ...

Fulton County and Sheriff Pat Labat have agreed to a consent decree with the DOJ to address the federal agency's investigation into the Fulton County Jail, which found poor conditions that led to ...

More than a month after releasing a scathing report on Fulton County Jail, the U.S. Department of Justice has filed an ...

The Justice Department said it has reached an agreement to fix the jail’s “dehumanizing conditions” following multiple deaths ...

The US Justice Department has entered a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia’s Fulton County over jail conditions that ...

The Justice Department reaches a consent decree agreement with Fulton County to fix filthy and deadly conditions at the jail.

The proposed consent decree mandates critical improvements to protect incarcerated individuals from violence and unsafe, ...

In November, the DOJ released a report saying that current conditions in Georgia's Fulton County jails violate inmate rights.

A federal probe found unlawful and dangerous conditions at the jail that jeopardize the lives of detainees, many of whom have not been convicted of a crime.

Mo Ivory was officially sworn in as the Fulton County Commission's first Afro-Latina commissioner at a ceremony in downtown Atlanta.

Under the proposed deal, known as a consent decree, the jail will develop plans to keep people safe from violence, improve ...