The first onsite interfaith, interdenominational center for inmates, staff, and chaplains is now open at the DeKalb County Jail in Decatur. Sheriff Melody Maddox made the announcement of the opening of the chapel on Feb. 28. “Located inside the DeKalb County Jail, the chapel is a dedicated ...
Officials said the three suspects tried to deliver a contraband bag that contained cell phones, cell phone chargers, cigarette lighters, cans of shaving powder, a vapor pen, tubes of glue and Versace eyeglasses. All were transported to the DeKalb County Jail without incident, stated officials....
Reid remained in the DeKalb County jail until December 1, 2022, when JPSO detectives “tacitly” admitted the error and rescinded the July warrant. “[I was] not eating, not sleeping,” Reid said of his time in jail. “I’m thinking about these charge...
This time, though, my mom and stepdad refused to bail me out. They wanted me to learn a lesson. So I spent like three weeks in the DeKalb County jail in Atlanta. That’s when I saw the dude making the burrito — bread, Cheetos and ramen noodles. He would wet the bread and make ...
Bolton would later be hired as the police chief of the DeKalb County Police Department in Georgia.He would be fired from that role in 2009. Mack Vines, chief from 1988 to 1990, was fired after he was indicted onperjury charges. He testified to a special panel ...
Local jails have had no respite from an increase in inmate mortality. The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office had nine deaths in custody in 2022. Clayton County’s count rose to eight last year, up from five the previous year, which had been the highest in a decade. Cobb had ...
Dekalb County, GA is throwing away ballots, envelopes, and other information required to be retained by law for 22 months. It looks like Dekalb County, GA did order 25 million voter registration forms for a population of less than 1 million. ...
To lead the team, he hired Stacey K. Hydrick, a prosecutor at the state Attorney General's office who had just taken down two state senators, Ralph Abernathy III and Diana Harvey Johnson. Hydrick immediately set her sights on corruption at the nearby DeKalb County Jail. Two guards were late...
She was arrested in Phoenix, Arizona, and extradited to Georgia. She entered a preliminary plea of not guilty at her arraignment; as of December 2022, she was being held in Georgia’s DeKalb County jail, waiting for her case to be placed on the court’s pretrial calendar, DeKalb County ...
he called the DeKalb County police. He recalled telling a Mr. Brown, "'This is Richard Jewell. I am sure you are aware of my situation over on Buford Highway.' He said, 'Yes, Richard, I know.' I said, 'I just want to tell you my situation. Number one: I did not do this. ...