Atlanta City Detention Center
Atlanta City Detention Center (ACDC), also known as the Atlanta City Jail, is a municipal pretrial detention and arrest-processing facility located at 254 Peachtree Street SW in Atlanta, Georgia. Opened in 1995 as a design–build project by Turner Associates Architects and the Turner Construction Company, the 471,000-square-foot, 1,300-bed facility was built in anticipation of increased arrest activity surrounding the 1996 Summer Olympics. Although designed to hold over a thousand people, ACDC's daily population declined sharply in the late 2010s following a series of criminal justice reforms enacted under Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, including the end of cash bail for most municipal offenses and the termination of the city's contract to hold detainees for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In May 2019, following years of organizing by coalitions including Women on the Rise and the Close the Jail ATL: Communities Over Cages campaign, Bottoms signed legislation authorizing the closure of ACDC and establishing a task force to repurpose the building into a "Center for Equity." A 2021 analysis commissioned by the city from the Vera Institute of Justice found that, as of October 2020, ACDC held fewer than 25 people on an average day at an estimated cost of $807,723 per incarcerated person annually—more than seventeen times the national average—and that Black residents made up 90 percent of the facility's average daily population despite constituting roughly half of Atlanta's population. Despite the 2019 closure commitment, ACDC was never fully decommissioned. In August 2022, amid a fatal overcrowding crisis at the Fulton County Jail, the Atlanta City Council approved Ordinance 22-O-1632, authorizing a four-year lease of up to 700 ACDC beds to Fulton County at a rate of $50 per detainee per day. The agreement, opposed by many of the activists who had campaigned for the jail's closure, has remained a point of contention between the city and county. In late 2024, the Fulton County Commission unsuccessfully sought state legislative intervention to compel Atlanta to sell the facility outright, and by early 2025 the Atlanta City Council was considering measures signaling it would not renew the lease when it expires in late 2026.
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Peachtree Street Southwest, Atlanta
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Atlanta City Detention Center
Peachtree Street Southwest 254
30303 Atlanta
Georgia, United States
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