There were more stabbings at the Fulton County Jail in 2023 than violent crimes involving knives and other “cutting instruments” in the entire surrounding city of Atlanta, Georgia, according to new government data.
Department of Justice (DOJ) report A paper published Thursday found that 314 people were stabbed in prisons in 2023, but there were only 269 violent knife crimes in Atlanta that year. According to The Atlanta Police Department (APD) reported the data to the FBI. According to the report, the Fulton County Jail has more stabbings per month than the Miami-Dade County Jail in a year, even though Miami-Dade houses 1.5 times more people. It is said that there were many.
“They put a knife to my throat and I had to call my mother and tell her to send money to someone else or she would kill me,” prison detainee said in September 2023. told the Ministry of Justice. That’s what the prison you’re in will follow. [to] I’m waiting for my day in court. ”
According to the FBI, of the 293 violent crimes reported by APD in the city, 244 involved a knife, 17 were aggravated assaults, 3 were rapes, and 5 were murders.
Security fencing surrounds the Fulton County Jail on August 22, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Joe Radle/Getty Images)
fulton county jail staff capacity According to a Ministry of Justice report, the prison capacity is 1,125 inmates, but by July 2022 it would have reached 3,400. In 2022, 366 people were sleeping in makeshift beds on prison floors due to overcrowding.
According to a Department of Justice report, from 2022 to November 14, six people have been killed in prison attacks. Additionally, emergency medical services in prisons are “seriously deficient” in providing care, with non-homicide and suicide mortality rates in 2022 expected to be three times higher than national mortality rates in 2019, the most recent year for which national data is available. It has become.
The Department of Justice report said the death rate may be an underestimate because some deaths occurred outside of prison, including one case where an inmate died while on hospice care and was not counted in the prison total. There is a possibility that there are.
The Fulton County Jail did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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