Corrections deputies working overtime due to broken jail locks
Last week, inmates set a fire in a housing unit, knocked several doors off their tracks and tied the main door to the unit closed with bedsheets, locking deputies out. (The Daily Memphian file)
More than 100 locks remain broken on Shelby County Jail cell doors, and some of the replacement parts are no longer made.
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Shelby County JailAarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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