On Monday afternoon, the Fulton County Sheriff announced the consent decree proposed by the USDOJ had been adopted and signed.

The U.S. Justice Department announced that it has entered into a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia’s most populous county after finding that violence and filthy conditions in county lockups violated the constitutional rights of people held in jail.

The Justice Department reaches a consent decree agreement with Fulton County to fix filthy and deadly conditions at the jail. The DOJ says the Fulton County Jail has been plagued with violence and life-threatening conditions that violated the constitutional rights of the people housed there.