Opinion: There is no ‘model jail’ for Memphis
“Taxpayers and their elected officials wouldn’t know that from listening to the claims made by those who will profit immensely from a new jail,” Emmett Sanders writes. (Courtesy Shelby County Sheriff’s Office)
Emmett Sanders
Emmett Sanders is the policy and advocacy associate at the Prison Policy Initiative, a non-profit that produces research on mass criminalization.
“By failing to address the underlying problems that put so many people to jail in the first place, Shelby County will be doomed to revisit these problems again and again.”
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