Fulton County’s Jail is overcrowded, forcing hundreds of detainees to have to endure substandard conditions, including sleeping on cots on the floor.
Sheriff Patrick Labat and the City of Atlanta reached an agreement to ease that overcrowding.
The plan is for the city of Atlanta to lease 700 jail beds from the Atlanta City Detention Center. That’s pending an analysis by an intergovernmental committee.
Atlanta had planned to close ACDC as a jail, and repurpose the building as a community center to provide services and education.
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens says the city will move forward with using part of the facility to provide diversion services, but the remainder will be taken up by Fulton county detainees at least through the end of the lease.