Background, Education, and Decarceral Advocacy

Opinion: Fulton County Should End the Crisis at the Jail, AJC, June 2024 ➞

Some Myths on Incarceration Healthcare, AJC, February 2024 ➞

Collins and Franklin: Not One More Death, Decarcerate Fulton County Jail, The Atlanta Voice, December 2023 ➞

Fulton County Jail Report 2023, ACLU Georgia, December 2023 ➞

Advocacy Groups Offer Solutions for Fulton County Jail Overcrowding, GPB, November 2023 ➞

Color of Change Applauds Judge's Decision, Atlanta Tribune, October 2023 ➞

SCHR and COC Urge Against Transfers, Color of Change, September 2023 ➞

Letter from SCHR & COC to Fulton BOC, SCHR, September 2023 ➞

Color of Change Letter to Fani Willis, Color of Change, September 2023 ➞

Beware the Healthier Cage, Inquest, August 2023 ➞

No New Jail Community Sign-On Letter, ACLU Georgia, June 2023 ➞

ACLU Letter to Fulton County Commission, ACLU Georgia, April 2023 ➞

Jail Proposal, Fulton Legistar, February 2023 ➞

Pretrial Reform, Georgetown Law, November 2022 ➞

JPRC Review, JPRC, November 2022 ➞

There Are Better Solutions: An Analysis of Fulton County's Jail Population Data, ACLU, October 2022 ➞

Fulton task force recommends jail alternatives, AJC, October 2014 ➞

Fulton's carceral crisis: corruption, neglect, and mismanagement

Debate stalls again on new Fulton jail, AJC, June 2024 ➞

Fulton County Jail inmate fatally stabbed, Axios Atlanta, April 2024 ➞

Money, threats and power: A lawmaker-led jail monitoring company’s rise in Georgia, AJC, March 2024 ➞

Georgia bail bill jails more people pretrial and attacks bail funds, The Appeal, February 2024 ➞

Fulton County Jail records first death in 2024; 10 inmates passed last year, Atlanta Daily World, January 2024 ➞

Sheriff Patrick Labat found in breach of settlement agreement in South Fulton jail lawsuit, SCHR, January 2024 ➞

Fulton County Jail medical staff and Shane Kendall's death, The Appeal, December 2023 ➞

New Fulton County Jail could cost $2 billion, according to study, GPB, December 2023 ➞

“Continuously Victimized”: How a Fulton inmate’s death reflects a county’s criminal justice crisis, AJC, December 2023 ➞

New price tag, more details for Fulton County Jail plan, AJC, December 2023 ➞

Fulton leaders criticize sheriff for allegedly misusing inmate welfare funds, Atlanta News First, November 2023 ➞

Purgatory: Hundreds of unconvicted defendants spend months in dangerous Fulton jail system awaiting formal charges, 11Alive, November 2023 ➞

National Incarceration Crisis: Fulton County Jail, USA Today, November 2023 ➞

Judge: Labat can't send inmates out of state, AJC, October 2023 ➞

Autopsies spotlight mental health crisis at Fulton County Jail, WABE, October 2023 ➞

Fulton commissioners want answers from sheriff on inmate wristbands, AJC, October 2023 ➞

Georgia Senate to launch probe into Fulton Jail's dangerous conditions, AJC, October 2023 ➞

The people who've died in Fulton County's custody this year, AJC, September 2023 ➞

Dino Walker inmate death at Fulton County Jail lawsuit, Fox 5 Atlanta, September 2023 ➞

Fulton County Jail deaths: Lashawn Thompson 2023, The Appeal, September 2023 ➞

Sentenced to death but never convicted at the Fulton County Jail, AJC, September 2023 ➞

Fulton County Jail deaths: Wristband system, 11Alive, September 2023 ➞

Inmate death at Fulton County Jail: Montay Stinson, 11Alive, August 2023 ➞

Teen death at Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail, Prism Reports, July 2023 ➞

The real behind the wall: A look inside the infamous deadly Fulton County Jail, Atlanta Magazine, July 2023 ➞

Fulton County Jail: DOJ Investigation, CNN, July 2023 ➞

LaShawn Thompson independent autopsy, Capital B, May 2023 ➞

Fulton approves leasing beds at Atlanta's detention center, AJC, August 2022 ➞

In contentious meeting, Atlanta City Council OKs leasing jail beds to Fulton, AJC, August 2022 ➞

Fulton County Sheriff sends 100 inmates to Cobb to alleviate jail overcrowding, AJC, November 2021 ➞

Atlanta City Detention Center and public safety, Vera Institute, March 2021 ➞

New Fulton sheriff revives old question: Should county buy Atlanta's jail?, AJC, January 2021 ➞

General News, AP News, April 2019 ➞

Nearly half of the HIV-positive population at Fulton County Jail are reportedly not receiving HIV medication, Blavity, January 2019 ➞

Federal court finally ends oversight of Fulton County Jail, Prison Legal News, October 2016 ➞

Fulton jail no longer under court oversight, AJC, April 2015 ➞

Change in Fulton County GA indigent defense, HIV, and community organizing, Prison Legal News, September 2000 ➞