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Southern Center for Human Rights presents interim report on jail conditions; urges broader reform and warns SB7 may complicate consent decree compliance
Summary
The Southern Center for Human Rights gave Fulton County commissioners an interim report on jail conditions and recommended going beyond DOJ remedial measures; the group cautioned that Senate Bill 7 could hinder compliance with the consent decree.
The Southern Center for Human Rights presented an interim report to the Fulton County Board of Commissioners on March 5 summarizing community assemblies about conditions at the county jail and recommending that the county go beyond the minimum remedial measures set out in the Department of Justice findings.
Devin Franklin, senior movement policy counsel for the Southern Center for Human Rights, told the board…
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