Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat issued a statement Monday before being sworn into office for a second term, addressing November's DOJ report which detailed deplorable conditions at the Fulton County Jail.

The Fulton County Sheriff's Office said issues highlighted in a U.S. Department of Justice report on conditions at its jail are amplified by the building's continued decline. Why it matters: The report,

County commissioners scrapped a plan to build a new jail. Instead, they’ll spend a fraction of the cost to renovate the current jail.

The protests come a week after the U.S. Justice Department's shocking report calling the conditions at the Fulton County Jail "unconstitutional, unlawful and dangerous."

The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office issued a formal statement responding to a scathing report from the Justice Department about conditions at the Fulton County jail. The response says the federal report underscores “deep challenges facing our correctional system.”