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Justice Department files complaint and proposed consent decree in federal court.
The agreement must still be approved by a judge, but it would resolve problems found by investigators.
In July 2023 , the Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation into jail conditions in Fulton County .
It cited violence, filthy living quarters and the in-custody death of a man whose body was found covered in insects.
A Georgia state Senate committee formed last year to examine jail conditions in Fulton County concluded in August that county officials needed to do more to work together to address problems at the jail. It also called on the city of Atlanta to hand over all of its former jail to the county to house prisoners..
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