Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat is still failing to document the proper treatment of women with serious mental illnesses incarcerated in Fulton County, as is required by a 2022 settlement.
The agreement was the result of a class-action lawsuit filed in 2019 by the Georgia Advocacy Office, the Southern Center for Human Rights and Caplan Cobb LLC on behalf of women with serious mental illness who were being held in solitary confinement at the South Fulton Jail in Union City.
During the initial lawsuit, the Georgia Advocacy Office presented photographs from their inspections of the unsanitary jail cells the women were housed in for weeks at a time. The pictures showed cells that were covered in garbage, had standing toilet water, and walls stained with blood and fecal matter…