The Department of Justice and Fulton County have reached an agreement on steps to improve conditions at the Georgia county’s notorious Rice Street jail.
The DOJ said in a news release Friday that the parties agreed to a consent decree, which must be approved by a federal judge, that would resolve the agency’s claims that the jail “engages in a pattern or practice of violating the rights of people incarcerated there.”
The DOJ said in November that jail officials in Georgia’s most populous county were violating the constitutional rights of people in their custody by failing to protect them from violence, using excessive force, and holding them in filthy and unsafe conditions.
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