A Georgia state Senate committee says it will start its own investigation of jail conditions in the state’s most populous county.
FILE - The Fulton County Jail is seen April 11, 2023, in Atlanta. A Georgia state Senate committee is expected to announce Thursday, Oct. 5, that it's starting its own investigation into the troubled jail, months after the U.S. Justice Department unveiled a similar inquiry. – A Georgia state Senate committee says it will start its own investigation of jail conditions in the state's most populous county, three months after theState Sens.
Fulton County's main jail, which opened in 1989 in a neighborhood west of downtown Atlanta, has been plagued by overcrowding, unsanitary conditions and violence.Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat says the jail's walls are crumbling. Last year, Labat's deputies wheeled wheelbarrows of shanks pulled from jail walls into a county commission meeting to show how decayed conditions and violence feed each other.
Fulton already pays to house some of its remaining 1,000 inmates outside the county, but Labat has sought proposals to ship some inmates to private prisons on Georgia's southern border or in Mississippi. "This is something that needs to be addressed and it cannot wait," Albers said, saying officials need to seek short-term and long-term solutions.Of 3,500 people jailed at the end of August, 35% had yet to be indicted and faced no other charges Critics of Willis suggest overcrowding results in part from the failure to indict and try suspects rapidly enough.
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