Changes to county juvenile detention include uniforms and toothbrushes
Last October, control of the Youth Justice and Education Center transferred from the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office to the County’s Division of Corrections. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian file)
The change in who runs the detention center on a daily basis began this past October — about the time the Memphis Safe Task Force began operations locally.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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