The U.S. Justice Department announced Friday 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.

Fulton County's troubled jail is going under federal oversight for the second time in 20 years. Why it matters: The legally binding consent decree will address the jail's deadly, unsanitary and unconstitutional conditions that U.

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.