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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Joe Sommerlad and Gustaf Kilander

Inside the notorious Fulton County Jail where Trump and 18 allies were booked over Georgia election plot

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

The Fulton County Jail where Donald Trump and 18 of his co-defendants were booked over their plot to overturn the election results in Georgia has been beset by violence and neglect and is the subject of a civil rights investigation following several inmate deaths.

Mr Trump and 18 co-conspirators – lawyers Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman and Jenna Ellis and ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows among them – were formally charged with racketeering by Atlanta prosecutor Fani Willis over their alleged attempts to alter the presidential election result in the swing state in 2020 after it turned blue for Joe Biden.

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