Man killed by cellmate should not have been in Fulton jail

In 2014, DeMontae Ware was strangled by his cellmate in the Fulton County jail.

Although violence among inmates is not unheard of, Ware’s death is striking because he should have been released months before he was killed.

So why did Ware remain in jail?

At the time of Ware’s death, the Fulton County jail was under a decade-long consent order. It was overcrowded and understaffed, and with faulty locks on the jail’s cells, inmates could wander unimpeded.

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