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Posted inOpinion

Fulton County Sheriff: Fulton Jail Plan is ‘Shameful’

by Sheriff Pat LabatAugust 21, 2025August 21, 2025

The following is a letter from Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat. Yesterday’s vote by four members of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners (BOC) to spend a billion dollars to build a special purpose facility is the equivalent to being in a burning building and voting to design a new fire station that will not […]

Posted inCrime

Drugs, Cell Phones, and McDonald’s Burgers Smuggled Into Fulton County Jail

by B.T. ClarkJune 6, 2025June 6, 2025
Posted inCrime

Ending Inhumane Conditions: Fulton County Jail Update

by Dave Williams | Capitol Beat News ServiceJanuary 3, 2025January 3, 2025
Posted inIn The News

DOJ Report Reveals Constitutional Violations at Fulton County Jail

by B.T. ClarkNovember 14, 2024November 14, 2024
Posted inCrime

Sex, Lies, and Chicken Pot Pies: Smuggling Ring Busted at Fulton County Jail

by Thom ChandlerAugust 24, 2024August 24, 2024
Posted inYour Government

Election Results: Fulton County Voters Give Pat Labat Another Term as Sheriff

by Thom ChandlerMay 24, 2024May 24, 2024
Posted inIn The News

Fulton County Jail Investigation Continues: Here’s What We Learned This Week

by Stanley Dunlap | Georgia RecorderNovember 3, 2023
Posted inCrime

Sheriff calls five inmate deaths in a month at the Fulton County Jail ‘not surprising,’ blames overcrowding

by Donna Lowry | GA TodaySeptember 4, 2023
Posted inCrime

Crowd gathers outside Fulton County Jail as Trump arrest looms

by Jill Nolin | Georgia Recorder, Stanley Dunlap | Georgia Recorder and Ross Williams | Georgia RecorderAugust 24, 2023
Posted inIn The News

Family of man ‘eaten alive’ by bed bugs in the Fulton County jail gets $4 million settlement

by Thom ChandlerAugust 5, 2023
Posted inCrime

Justice Department opens investigation into conditions at Fulton County Jail

by Dave Williams | Capitol Beat News ServiceJuly 13, 2023
Posted inCrime

Here’s why Robb Pitts doesn’t want a new jail in Fulton County

by Thom ChandlerApril 21, 2023September 24, 2023
Posted inIn The News

An inmate at the Fulton County Jail was ‘eaten alive’ by bed bugs. Here’s what we know

by Thom ChandlerApril 19, 2023
Posted inYour Government

Fulton County Chairman to Atlanta officials: ‘Give us the damn keys to the jail’

by Thom ChandlerOctober 10, 2022September 24, 2023
prison fence, razor ribbon, wire
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Fulton County will lease space from Atlanta detention center to combat jail overcrowding

by Thom ChandlerAugust 2, 2022September 24, 2023

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