The Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a report Nov. 14 alleging that conditions within Georgia’s Fulton County jail system violate its inmates’ constitutional and statutory rights.
The DOJ opened its investigation in July 2023 after four inmates died in their cells in the mental health unit, the DOJ said in its report.
Fulton County didn’t respond to The Epoch Times’ request for comment by publication time.
In September 2022, Lashawn Thompson was reported to have been “neglected to death” and found in his cell malnourished and covered in body lice.
“Lashawn Thompson’s horrific death was symptomatic of a pattern of dangerous and dehumanizing conditions in the Fulton County Jail,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement on the report. “The Justice Department’s report concluded that Fulton County and the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office allowed unsafe and unsanitary conditions at the Jail.”…