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Residents and advocacy groups press Clayton County leaders over alleged jail failures, call for sheriff’s removal
Summary
Several speakers at the Dec. 16 Clayton County Board of Commissioners meeting urged immediate investigation into conditions at the Clayton County Jail and called for the sheriff’s removal, citing alleged long detentions without hearings, mold, broken doors and conflicts of interest; commissioners did not take formal action at the meeting.
Several speakers at the Clayton County Board of Commissioners’ Dec. 16 meeting urged the board to intervene in alleged problems at the Clayton County Jail, describing prolonged pretrial detention, unsafe conditions and conflicts of interest and calling for independent investigation and the sheriff’s removal.
Stacy Hopkins, a resident who said she lives in Fulton County, told the board she has a friend who has been held at the Clayton County Jail “for 3 years” without a first appearance or bond, and said family members have lost contact. “He still sits there, doesn’t with no bond, nothing,” Hopkins said during public comment, and asked the board to “please look into the Clayton County Jail.”
Advocates who spoke after Hopkins pressed for more…
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