A new investigative report shows that prisoners in a Georgia jail are literally wasting away from malnourishment as jail administration operates with disregard for the health and lives of folks inside of the Fulton County Jail Facility in Atlanta. Our guest in this episode is the journalist who detailed that investigative report, Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, who is the senior reporter for The Appeal, a worker-led nonprofit news organization. She writes on prison and jail conditions, and wrongful convictions. Her investigation we discuss is called Internal Report Details Severely Malnourished Detainees at Atlanta-Area Jail, where the facility’s medical provider described people with mental illness wasting away in a unit overrun by an outbreak of lice and scabies.

Read the article here: https://theappeal.org/fulton-county-jail-report-malnourished-detainees/

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