Eight people died at the Atlanta area Clayton County Jail in 2024. Sheriff Levon Allen said there were four 2023 deaths at ...

Sen. Jon Ossoff, in recognition for his work investigating corruption and civil rights abuses, has received the 2024 Carl ...

State lawmakers are looking for ways to prioritize health and safety in state-run prisons. The Department of Justice recently ...

A Georgia senate study committee released a report with nine recommendations to address long-running concerns about violence, ...

Then he became a janitor of Atlanta Penitentiary. Four years ago he was convicted of fraudulent use of the U.S. mails in selling the stock of Black Star LIne, by which he proposed to transport U.S ...

In 2022, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution revealed conditions at Georgia's prisons that one U.S. senator called "tragic and wholly unacceptable." The mounting violence and criminal activities ...

The Bureau of Prisons on Tuesday agreed to pay $115.8 million to 103 women who alleged they were sexually assaulted at the now-closed FCI Dublin all-women's prison.

Amy Jacques, editor, feminist, and race activist, was Marcus Garvey's second wife and his principal lieutenant during his incarceration in an Atlanta penitentiary from 1925 to 1927. Born in ...