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Fulton County and the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office routinely violate the constitutional and statutory rights of those incarcerated at the Fulton County Jail and fail to protect incarcerated persons from substantial risk of serious harm, the feds said.

ATLANTA — Three owners of an Atlanta meat company were sentenced this week to federal prison on charges of tax and immigration fraud. U.S. District Judge Thomas W. Thrash Jr. sentenced Rhett Maughon, 49, of Decatur, Rafael Villarreal Sr., 42, of Suwanee, and Marcus Maughon, 47, of Decatur, to prison after all three pleaded guilty to various charges in October 2011. The men pleaded after roughly two days of trial testimony but before the government closed its case. “The defendants’ unwritten business

The vice chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee this week said it is time for the United States “to act in a serious way” on Syria. “Based on available intelligence, there can be no doubt the Assad regime is responsible for using chemical weapons on the Syrian people,” U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., said in a statement. “It is time for the United States to act in a serious way, and send a clear