Calling conditions at the Fulton County, Ga. Jail "disgraceful and totally unacceptable," U.S. District Senior Judge Marvin H. Shoob ordered authorities to correct "gross inadequacies of medical care." Shoob found the county violated a settlement agreement with the jail's HIV-positive inmates, six of whom initiated a class-action suit last year. The inmates claimed medical treatment for those in the county jail, particularly HIV-positive prisoners, was gravely inadequate.
March 16, 2000 at 12:00 AM
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Calling conditions at the Fulton County, Ga. Jail “disgraceful and totally unacceptable,” U.S. District Senior Judge Marvin H. Shoob has ordered county authorities to correct “gross inadequacies of medical care.”
In an order filed Monday, Shoob found the county violated a final settlement agreement reached in January with the jail’s HIV-positive inmates, six of whom initiated a class-action suit last year. Foster v. Fulton County, No. 1:99-cv-900 (N.D. Ga. March 13, 2000).
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