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 ...

The Justice Department has entered into a consent decree with Fulton County to improve conditions at the county jail.

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 has filed a complaint and proposed consent decree in federal court, and the agreement must still be approved by a judge, the agency said.

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 ...