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In Georgia, over 600 prisoners are being transferred from the Fulton County Jail after the family of a deceased prisoner says he was “eaten alive” by insects and bedbugs in his cell last year. The family of 35-year-old Lashawn Thompson, who was being held in the jail’s psychiatric wing, is demanding a criminal investigation and that the jail be shut down.