ATLANTA — According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, former Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill recently was released from federal prison and is now in community confinement.
Hill had been serving an 18-month sentence for civil rights violations in an Arkansas federal prison before being transferred into community confinement run by the Atlanta Residential Reentry Management Office.
According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Hill’s release date is April 26.
Hill was found guilty in October 2022 and was sentenced in March 2023 to 18 months on six counts of deprivation of rights of detainees at the Clayton County Jail.
Hill was later ordered to report to FCI Forrest City, a low security federal prison in Arkansas.
On May 5, 2023, U.S. Northern District of Georgia Judge Eleanor L. Ross ruled that Hill had to report to the Arkansas prison on May 15, 2023.
In September 2023, U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., pressed for a civil rights investigation into alleged mistreatment and abuse of inmates in the Clayton County Jail.
Ossoff, chairman of the U.S. Senate Human Rights Subcommittee, urged U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to open the civil rights investigation, pointing to extensive local reporting alleging serious human rights violations and dangerous conditions inside the facility.
“There appears to be a pattern and practice of civil rights violations in this jail that result in preventable deaths and jeopardize public trust,” Ossoff wrote. “As one detainee told a reporter earlier this year — ‘We need somebody to come in here and see about this. The Department of Justice, somebody needs to come.’ I echo this detainee’s call and ask for your assistance.”
In April 2023, Ossoff launched an inquiry to strengthen oversight of jails and prisons where brutal treatment and other human rights abuses have been reported.
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