Talk about SCUM OF THE EARTH. Dekalb County Jail and their employees are the paragon of lying trash whose mothers should be ashamed to have birthed such lowly, cruel and distasteful abominations! Your children are scum and a direct reflection of you!!! I was picked up by a sheriff because apparently a warrant for my arrest was put out for not paying a traffic ticket I thought I had paid. When the sheriff picks me up, I go peacefully all the while explaining to him that I do not think what he is doing is right. The sheriff transports me to Dekalb County Jail and left a good note about me. While under the care of Dekalb County Jail, I was hog tied, physically attacked by a group of men in swat armour, harassed, physically harmed by the nurse on duty through injection, had my due process rights violated and intentionally kept over night although my bond was posted early that day by my mother. They asked for my urine, they never said for what, and I refused explaining to them that I am not required to give them my biological property. After they hog tied me, a woman came to check on my mental health and she told the abominable scum bags that absolutely nothing was wrong with me. Shortly after, I was transported by a single female officer to the mental ward and she warned me to do whatever they say. The scum bags lied in their deposition and fraudulently stated I was transported by something called their J.E.S.T. Team. I did not heed her advice. After being placed in the mental ward, I thought to myself if they are going to treat me like I am crazy then I am going to act crazy. I began to make rhythmic beats on the wall to entertain myself. I found a pencil and began to draw on the wall. Finally, I start singing the Freddy Kruger song.. "1..2.. Freddy's coming for you.." and this begins to make the woman in the cell next to me scream. This made LPN Ingrid Davis upset and she screamed at the woman to shut up. LPN Ingrid Davis then threatened to inject me with drugs to make me sleep if I didn't shut up too. I did not shut up. I was pissed they kept lying about why I was there, saying they are checking my prints and waiting on reports to come back. Liars!!! I was pissed about being forced to dress in literal paper sheets and freezing because they would not provide me a blanket in an all metal room. The bunk didn't even have a mattress. The nurses and doctor on duty became entirely unresponsive until I made the woman in the cell next to me scream. Never once did I attempt to or speak about harming myself. Ingrid Davis came to the cell and began making small chat with me. She asked me a bunch of questions until she could make up a LIE to forcibly drug me. Ingrid Davis lied in her deposition and said I was banging my head on the wall and tried to jump off of the toilet to hurt myself. Ingrid Davis called a team of men armoured down to the socks to restrain me while she injected me in both cheeks of my buttocks with something that knocked me out and made me very ill after awaking. I filed an internal affairs report and I went to the bar to hire an attorney to pursue litigation. The attorney who decided to help was Robb Ortman. He told me he would make the case public by taking it to the news, but this never happened. I was also informed that he was unable to get the video recording from that night because the jail deleted it. I do appreciate the work and thousands he put in for 2/ -3 years on my behalf. This is what Robb told me concerning my case:11/27/2013: ...The bad news is that the attorney assigned to represent Davis, MHM, Quinn & Mendoza is a prick. He filed what's called a Rule 11 letter demanding that we dismiss the claim because it contradicts Nurse Davis' story. He then filed a motion to dismiss (which isn't rare in cases like there).... the prick's motion misrepresented the law to the Court twice and I called him on it. In short, I don't see it happening, but I still have to let you know... 06/04/2014: ... They claim emergency situation, you claim being a pain. I think we have a good shot. Your medical records were submitted sealed so the public can't see it, but nurse notations that you were "pleasant, cooperative, etc." ... !! 09/28/2015: "Bad news, Autumn.The Court kicked out your case stating that "there was an emergency situation" and, as I feared, ... You have 30 days to appeal but in the Circuit, it's probably a worthless and very costly endeavor. ... -- since the Michael Brown incident and black lives matter initiative, civil rights cases have become nearly impossible to win in Federal Court with the Judges siding with the cops 99.99999% of the time. Let me know you received this, please."10/06/15: You have 30 days from the date of the decision (September 23) to file a notice of appeal in the US District Court for North Georgia.The fee is $505 last time I checked. You would need to hire another attorney as 90% of cases are upheld ... Sorry again. I fucking hate the Federal Court did this to you. read more

The Dekalb County Jail violates the most fundamental rights of the 3,000 Americans it houses there. 1. Presumption of innocence: It's important to remember that JAIL is by definition for people who are innocent in the eyes of the law. If you are CONVICTED of a crime or plead guilty, you serve your time in a PRISON. Most Americans (and apparently the DCJ staff) don't know this critical distinction. Those being shackled, put in GTMO orange, and fed dog food are innocent citizens (the presumption of innocence is one of the pillars of our judicial system). 2. Access to an attorney: God help you if you didn't memorize your attorney's number before incarceration because they will take any and all paper on your person and will refuse to give you access to your sealed personal belongings where it is stored until you are released... which won't happen until you contact your attorney. It's a Kafkaesque situation. 3. Access to medical care: This one is criminally negligent. Although you will see a nurse upon check-in, DCJ will not give you any medications you are on if the staff considers them "psychiatric." No medication should be abruptly discontinued. Many can cause intensely uncomfortable withdrawal, seizures, or even death. This blanket policy by DCJ is a gross violation of the human rights of the prisoners and from a behavior management level makes no sense; why on Earth would you take a medication away from an inmate that might make him less impulsive or angry if the entire reason he is there is often due to a condition that made him impulsive or angry? Given the intense pain of withdrawal from certain medications such as SSRIs or anticonvulsants, this policy is de facto torture, banned by several conventions and treaties the United States signed. 4. Access to educational and rehabilitative material: books, pencils, pens, and paper are all considered contraband. Inmates shuffle back and forth, watch television (if it is functioning in their dorm), or perhaps play cards but there are no activities or access to resources that will actually improve the lives of the inmates and make them less likely to commit crimes in the future (assuming that they do end up being found guilty of the crime of which they are accused). 5. Equal treatment before the law regardless of race or ethnicity: the OVERWHELMING majority of inmates are African-American and poor. Most are there not because they committed a crime but because they could not pay a fine or fee mandated by a for-profit company to which the state has outsourced many critical functions such as anger management classes. A white person who owes $500 would NEVER end incarcerated but many black inmates are locked up for owing far less. 6. Due process and a speedy trial: inmates can be held for months or even years while waiting for trial. Even if later found not guilty, the state will never pay reparations for the life they have lost, children's birthdays missed, jobs terminated for failure to show up, or relationships ended because of a prolonged absence. The bond process seems designed to guarantee long stays for simple administrative matters. A third party on the outside must go to a bond agency or present with cash to post bond. Any delays in reaching that third party mean more time in jail eating dog food. Why, in an age when we can order anything on line, must men and women be housed like animals simply because the DCJ refuses to allow them access to their own hard-earned money? What purpose does this serve? It's medieval. 7. A prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment: the gratuitous use of handcuffs at every opportunity - EVEN AFTER AN INMATE IS CLEARED FOR RELEASE - seems designed to humiliate and create pain (handcuffs hurt if not applied correctly). There are no clocks anywhere - why not? There is no access to the outside world, no hope of getting a message out to let others know you are alive and in jail except for a single phone call when you arrive (that an inmate could reasonably waive on the assumption that the stay will be brief). The only way to call out initially is via an outrageously priced ($15 per call) collect call that will not work with most cell phones. My assumption is that the management of this institution has gone out of its way to make things difficult, painful, and humiliating both for inmates and those trying to help them. The process is so slow that it's impossible to believe that it's not part of the punishment. One can post bail at 1 p.m. but not leave until 9:30 p.m. For reasons that completely escape me, medications, clothes, and personal articles are stored in separate locations, exponentially increasing the probability of something getting lost. And although discharges (or releases) occur 24:7, access to medications (which inmates cannot receive) is limited, meaning inmates released late (through no fault of their own) must leave without their medications. read more

My name is K Brown and I was born in Kingston, Jamaica. I moved to Atlanta, Georgia when I was 11 or 12 years old. When I moved to Atlanta, Georgia around May 1992 we stayed in Stone Mountain, Georgia. My mother, Carmen Light, was going through a divorce in 1994 and took her anger out on me and went to the Dekalb County Sheriff's Office and told one of the police officers or one of the employee's a lie on K Brown. K Brown was there at the Dekalb County Sheriff's Office and the police officer told K Brown's mother, Carmen Light, that K Brown had did nothing wrong. K Brown agreed with the police officer and she left. K Brown has visited the Lilburn Police Department several times and I have filed a police report on several people, the names are the following, Quarthro Burton, Carmen Light, Paul or Dave Chambers, Colleen Fearon and a couple of people for hitting her cars. These police reports were filed under one police officer named, Officer Suk, who gave K Brown his e-mail address. K Brown still visits the Lilburn Police Department, in Lilburn Georgia. K Brown was in the Gwinnett County Detention Center on December 15, 2016 for marking (2) court papers at the Gwinnett County Courthouse in Lawrenceville, Georgia. K Brown still pleas not guilty during zoom in February 2023 and court in May 2021 because one of the Magistrate Clerk's gave K Brown (2) court papers for free. K Brown also called Mercy Walker or Mercy Hudson when she was in the Gwinnett County Detention Center in December 15, 2016. A lawyer got K Brown out of the Gwinnett County Detention Center. K Brown also had court while in the Detention Center, but K Brown couldn't say anything. K Brown's mother, Carmen Light, also attended court. K Brown's case with Viewpoint Health Center is closed and K Brown is trying to end her case with Salveo Integrative Health. K Brown is waiting to get her disposition letter or her disposition paper from the courthouse in Lawrenceville, Georgia so that she can get her background check complete so that she can start working in a childcare center. K Brown is going to have to file a police report on Mr. Eno for holding K Brown's modeling contract. Mr. Eno's address is 2470 Windy Hill Road, Suite #261, Marietta Ga 30067. His phone number cannot be given out. K Brown gave Mr. Eno her modeling contract to hold for her because K Brown was trying to move out of her house in Lilburn, Georgia. Mr. Eno has been holding K Brown's modeling contract for about (8) years. This is fraud and abuse. Thank you. read more

Came to wait for someone to get released & tried to go inside thinking I could wait inside like at Gwinnett & this woman officer storms up to me with an obvious attitude on her face & asks what I want. So I tell her & she says, "Uhuh, you gotta wait outside" & passes me & shoves the door open. Such an attitude, like I'm supossed to know that. And nevermind the fact that it's 11 at night & this is a bad area. Way to represent the police force lady It's no wonder this place has such a bad rep. If they treat people not in there that way imagine how they treat people in there!! Infuriating. read more

The state department or mayor needs to look into what's going on the inside of those walls every time you call no one picks up the phone the Ac not working no cold water they have coolers for them to drink cold water. Evertime i schedule a video visit over the phone that i pay for they never let him out on time to receive out on time i do understand that they have to pay for their crime that they did or didn't do but they are still human beings. read more

Would not recommend going to jail in DeKalb County or anywhere else. I don't really have much more to say, but I have to say more for this to count as a review. Kudos to whoever angrily carved "187" on the window of one of the holding cells. read more

When I was released my watch and $70 of my $90 in my wallet was missing. Theiving COs. They did do a good job of keeping up with my medication, so I'll give them that. Still, COs steal inmates possessions. read more

The men are all feminine big strong looking guys you can tell that they're there because they like to smell other men's nuts and butts. They are all on the down low kind of like p Diddy read more

Fix the damn Inmate Look-up Tool!! I'm tired of seeing the same black dude in every photo with different info attached!!

The most horrible jail in the United States!!! Very rude, unprofessional, unkind, just a disgrace!!