Sheriff Melody Maddox has repeatedly refused Decaturish.com’s requests for an interview about inmate deaths in 2022. The Sheriff’s Office and Medical Examiner provided numerous documents in response to our records request that shed new light on how the nine inmates died.
Officials with the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office said two deaths recently occurred at the DeKalb County Jail within a three-day period. The news comes after two inmates died within a week of one another in July.The latest two deaths occurred Aug. 14 and Aug. 16. Neither inmate was a resident of DeKalb County.Officials stated that College Park resident Michael Assevero,