Adrian Oliver Carter, 37, has been booked into the Fulton County Jail after authorities say he broke into a northwest Atlanta ...

Latreece Williams hasn’t had a good night’s sleep at her home in Perkerson Park in over a month. Not since her son Dewayne ...

This is the fifth death of a Fulton County Jail inmate since the end of July. The sheriff’s office said 40-year-old Montay Stinson was found unresponsive in his cell on the night of July 31.

Several commissioners agreed that the jail is in crisis. But that did not solve the dispute over if the Sheriff’s Office should have to provide quarterly staff reports.

Fulton County leaders acknowledge the Rice Street jail has been insufficient almost since the day it opened in 1989. Just last month, multiple Atlanta City Council members were left stunned after ...

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — A man found guilty in June of starving his 4-year-old daughter to death learned his fate on Thursday. He ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Fulton County leaders are looking to leverage state support to acquire the Atlanta City Detention Center. “Having control of that facility and manage our ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - An inmate at the Fulton County Jail was stabbed, according to a Fulton County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson. The stabbing happened Thursday night and the ...

Trump lands in Atlanta, surrenders at Fulton County Jail. ... Fulton County Jail, which opened in 1989, held more than 3,200 people earlier this year — well above its capacity of roughly 2,700.