New jail study looked at Shelby Farms, Firestone plant as potential sites
A recent study of the Shelby County Jail concludes that if the county does build a new facility, it probably shouldn’t be near the existing one at 201 Poplar Ave. (The Daily Memphian file)
A long-awaited study of the Shelby County Jail concludes that if the county does build a new facility, it probably shouldn’t be near the existing one at 201 Poplar Ave.
The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office commissioned the study by Jim Hart, a jail management consultant with the University of Tennessee’s County Technical Advisory Service (C-TAS). It looked at a site on county land near the current jail; at Shelby Farms Park, where county government already has several offices on the park’s western boundary; and at the old Firestone Tire plant in North Memphis.
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