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"Your rights didn't even matter": Community Organizer Maxx Boykin On His Experience Inside Atlanta's Fulton County Jail

When a detainee at the Fulton County, Ga., jail in Atlanta was found dead in a filthy, vermin-infested cell in September, 2022, the federal Department of Justice announced an investigation into the death -- and into allegations of a pattern of mistreatment and danger at the Rice Street facility in downtown Atlanta.

"Your rights didn't even matter": Community Organizer Maxx Boykin On His Experience Inside Atlanta's Fulton County Jail