Jose Ibarra, the suspect charged in Augusta University student Laken Riley's February murder on UGA's campus, is to appear in court on Friday for the start of his trial.

In November 2010, Rusty Sneiderman from Dunwoody, Georgia, was dropping his son off at preschool. This was when he was shot ...

A trial is set to get underway for a man accused of killing a Georgia nursing student earlier this year, in a case that fanned the immigration debate in the last election cycle ...

When 36-year-old Russell “Rusty” Sneiderman was heinously murdered on the morning of November 18, 2010, right outside his son ...

Georgia Department of Corrections officials began laying the groundwork Wednesday for an infusion of state funding to beef up staffing, replace aging infrastructure, and improve inmate health care.

ATLANTA - An inmate is on the run after he was improperly released from custody. Johntavious Wynn was behind bars, accused of aggravated assault. Wynn’s ex-girlfriend says he was locked up because he ...

In October, the U.S. Justice Department concluded that Georgia’s state prison system is unsafe. The conclusion was based on a study by the department’s Civil Rights Division.

"Fulton County Jail fails to adequately protect incarcerated people from the substantial risk of serious harm from violence, ...

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. - On Thursday, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division ...

A tenth defendant charged in a Georgia drug trafficking conspiracy has been found guilty by a jury. Donnie Skillman, 47, of ...

Jail officials in Georgia’s most populous county are violating the constitutional rights of people in their custody by ...

The Appeal and other news outlets spent years reporting on dangerous conditions inside Atlanta, Georgia's Fulton County Jail.