Last year, a damning report was written by The Guardian about this prison:

Conditions in the Fulton county jail in Atlanta “violate the constitutional and statutory rights of people incarcerated”, a long-running federal investigation concluded on Thursday.

“Killings, stabbings, and assaults are common in the Jail,” according to a Department of Justice report. Contraband is pervasive, lethal violence goes uninvestigated – and is sometimes directly abetted by jail staff – and drug use is common, according to investigators in a 91-page report on Thursday.

Federal investigators began examining jail conditions after a sharp increase in the number of prisoners who died in custody there during the pandemic. The gruesome death of Lashawn Thompson in September 2022 made national headlines. Jailers found Thompson, who suffered from serious mental illness, covered in insects in his own waste with his face down on the cell toilet. A coroner described Thompson as “neglected to death”.

Thompson was one of dozens of people who have either been murdered, killed themselves or died in the jail in recent years. The report notes that even discounting deaths from homicide and suicide, the mortality rate inside the jail has been several times higher than the national average.

More than 1,000 assaults occurred in the jail in 2023, including 314 stabbings, according to the report. “In 2023, the rate of stabbings at the Jail was 1.5 times the rate of stabbings in the New York City Jails and more than 27 times the rate of all incidents involving an edged weapon in the Miami-Dade County Jails,” the report states. “The Jail had as many stabbings in a single month as the Miami-Dade County Jails – which house 1.5 times more people – had all year.”

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