Cobb County Adult Detention Center

Justice April 24, 2025

In-custody death in Cobb County jail

The Cobb County Sheriff’s Office reported the death of a detainee in custody at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center. Bunnie Large, 42, died yesterday, April 22. According to the…

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News Brief December 24, 2024

Cobb Adult Detention Center detainee dies

Another detainee at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center has died. Sheriff Craig Owens stated in a news release that Clara Palmer was found unresponsive in her call Saturday night,…

Cobb County December 2, 2023

Another detainee dies at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center

According to a public information release from the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office, a detainee at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center (Cobb ADC), Jose Razo, died at 1:56 p.m. on…

Cobb County November 15, 2023

GBI denies Cobb Sheriff Office request to investigate inmate death because hospital indicates natural causes

Photo: Cobb County Courier/Larry Felton Johnson, CC BY 4.0 According to a spokesperson for the GBI, the bureau denied a request by the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office to investigate Monday’s…

Cobb County November 14, 2023

Detainee dies in custody at the Cobb County jail

Photo: Cobb County Courier/Larry Felton Johnson, CC BY 4.0 A detainee died in custody yesterday at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center. Randi Okray, a Senior Marketing and Public Relations…

Education May 26, 2023

GED testing comes to the Cobb County Adult Detention Center

The office of Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens announced that the General Education Development (GED) test was administered to detainees at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center for the first…

Cobb County October 11, 2022

Power restored to Cobb jail after a 12-hour outage

Electrical power was restored to the Cobb County Adult Detention Center after an outage of just over 12 hours. There have been two short public information releases from Sgt. Jeremy…

Criminal Justice System July 26, 2022

Power restored to the Cobb County jail; outage explained

Sgt. Jeremy Blake, the public information officer for the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office issued the following public information release about the power outage at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center:…

Criminal Justice System July 24, 2022

Power outage at the Cobb County jail

Sgt. Jeremy Blake, the public information officer for the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office issued the following public information release this afternoon: MARIETTA, GA — Today, a section of the Cobb…

Criminal Justice System June 26, 2022

Cobb BOC to take up intergovernmental agreement to house Kennesaw detainees at the Cobb Adult Detention Center

The Cobb County Board of Commissioners has been asked to approve a Housing Intergovernmental Agreement to house detainees at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center who are arrested in the…

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Government & Politics May 24, 2025

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