The Cobb County Adult Detention Center has disputed the accusations, saying that inmates in the impacted housing block were moved from the area shortly after reporting a 'slight odor' coming from the water.
In a statement, Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren confirmed that the jail had performed maintenance work to replace a valve in the building's water system on Friday, January 17.
However, the ACLU says that the inmates were not immediately moved to another facility and that it took repeated phone calls from their family members to convince the sheriff's office to do so. The allegations also state that while the men remained in the cell block with contaminated pipes that there was no access to running water for drinking or bathing.
The Cobb County Adult Detention Center has been under scrutiny from activist groups since 2019, when seven inmate deaths were reported at the jail.
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