The Justice Department issued a 105 page report outlining the inhumane conditions in the Fulton County Jail in Georgia on Thursday.

The DOJ found the jail managed by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office violated the 8th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Last year, the jail reported 1,054 assaults and 314 stabbings as well as examples sexual assault and “unsanitary conditions.”

The department began the investigation after 35-year-old Lashawn Thompson was found dead in a cell infested with bed bugs.

“Lashawn Thompson’s horrific death was symptomatic of a pattern of dangerous and dehumanizing conditions in the Fulton County........

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