Ga. sheriff: ‘People will continue to die’ if Atlanta ends jail lease

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

ATLANTA — Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat told Atlanta City Council members even more people will die if they vote to end a lease allowing his department to house county inmates at the city’s jail.

The sheriff cautioned that terminating Fulton’s lease at the Atlanta City Detention Center late next year would mean an influx of detainees into the county’s already-crowded and notoriously dangerous Fulton County Jail, leading to additional violence and potentially more deaths…

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