Investigators also found that the main Fulton County Jail building is hazardous and unsanitary, citing flooding from broken ...

The Dispatch broke the story of flying pans and dishes, broken glass and flicking lights. Forty years later, Tina Resch ...

A trial is set to get underway for a man accused of killing a Georgia nursing student earlier this year, in a case that fanned the immigration debate in the last election cycle ...

Georgia Department of Corrections officials began laying the groundwork Wednesday for an infusion of state funding to beef up staffing, replace aging infrastructure, and improve inmate health care.

In October, the U.S. Justice Department concluded that Georgia’s state prison system is unsafe. The conclusion was based on a study by the department’s Civil Rights Division.

"Fulton County Jail fails to adequately protect incarcerated people from the substantial risk of serious harm from violence, ...

A tenth defendant charged in a Georgia drug trafficking conspiracy has been found guilty by a jury. Donnie Skillman, 47, of ...

Jail officials in Georgia’s most populous county are violating the constitutional rights of people in their custody by ...

The Appeal and other news outlets spent years reporting on dangerous conditions inside Atlanta, Georgia's Fulton County Jail.

With a contraband cellphone, Donald Jason Miles had orchestrated drug deals while serving a 30-year prison sentence for meth trafficking, federal prosecutors say.

Conditions at Atlanta's main prison are "inhumane, violent, and hazardous," a Justice Department official said Thursday ...

Idaho man Robert Purbeck received a 10-year sentence for hacking and extortion, impacting over 132,000 people.