The Justice Department has found that egregious conditions at Georgia’s Fulton County Jail — including pest infestation, malnourishment, a lack of adequate medical care and rampant violence that contributed to multiple deaths — violate the constitutional rights of people in custody.

The U.S. Department of Justice says Georgia's Fulton County Jail violates detainees' Constitutional rights and federal law by subjecting them to "dangerous and dehumanizing conditions."

The Fulton County Jail in Atlanta subjects inmates to “inhumane, violent and hazardous conditions” that threaten their safety, a US Justice Department official said Thursday, announcing the results of a 16-month investigation.

The report follows a federal investigation to assess conditions in Fulton County jails, focusing on detainees' living conditions and access to care.

“We can not turn a blind eye to the unlawful and inhumane conditions inside the Fulton County jail” The Department Of Justice outlines what they describe as horrendous findings inside the jail. In 2023 there were 314 stabbing And More than 1000 assaults.⁦ @FOX5Atlanta ⁩ pic.twitter.com/2cmwaaOfma

U.S. Justice Department officials said jail officials in Georgia’s most populous county violate the constitutional rights of people in their custody by failing to protect them from violence, using excessive force and holding them in filthy and unsafe conditions.

In a blunt report released on Thursday, the department said officials in Fulton County have had “deliberate indifference to the risks of harms.”

Georgia officials violated the rights of people in an overcrowded jail plagued by killings and inhumane conditions, a Justice Department report says.

Justice Department finds that Georgia’s Fulton County fails to adequately protect jail inmates from violence

The Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney's Office Northern District held a press conference early Thursday afternoon to discuss the results of the civil investigation into the Fulton County Jail.