The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division announced that conditions in Georgia’s Fulton County Jail violate the Constitution.

Fulton County, Georgia, and its Sheriff's Office violated the constitutional rights of people housed at the county jail, according to a new report released by the Justice Department on Thursday. "Fulton County Jail fails to adequately protect incarcerated people from the substantial risk of serious harm from violence,

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. - The United States Department of Justice has issued its report after opening a civil investigation into the conditions at the Fulton County Jail. They announced the disturbing results of that investigation at a press conference early Thursday afternoon.

The government made a list of demands in dozens of categories in a letter Thursday to the Sangamon County Sheriff's Office.

The US Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation of Illinois’ Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office four months after a deputy fatally shot Sonya Massey while responding to her call about a possible prowler outside the 36-year-old Black woman’s home.