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Change in Fulton County, GA: Indigent Defense, HIV, and Community Organizing
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2000
by Lisa Zahren
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2000, page 16
The Fulton County Jail in Atlanta is the largest jail in Georgia, with approximately 3,000 prisoners held there for months and sometimes years waiting for their cases to be resolved or to be transferred to a state prison. In early 1999, the medical care for people who are HIV+ was ...
Filed under:
HIV/AIDS,
Conditions of Confinement,
Totality of Conditions,
Overcrowding,
Jail Specific,
Attorney Fee Awards,
Attorney Client,
Public Defenders.
Location:
Georgia.
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