Hundreds of jail inmates will be moved to combat overcrowding, sheriff says
“As far as the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office going out and detaining immigrants, that’s not happening,” Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner said. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Bonner also denied that his office is working with ICE to make immigration arrests and talked about inmate deaths at the jail, also known as 201 Poplar.
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Aarron Fleming covers public safety for The Daily Memphian, focusing on crime and the local court system. He earned his bachelor’s in journalism and strategic media from the University of Memphis.
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