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The wear and tear on the 40-year-old building is evident everywhere, but progress is happening in small, expensive steps, including restoration of the jail’s 10 escalators, which cost more than $1 million.
In October 2022, Gershun Freeman died at 201 Poplar after an altercation with nine corrections deputies.
“You really shouldn’t have to prove your innocence,” Adriana Tyler’s attorney said after Tyler spent three months in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. “But that’s what we had to do in this situation.”
In a lawsuit, the family of Rockez McDaniel alleges that staff, nurses and others are responsible for his death after he was pepper-sprayed by officers at the Shelby County Jail in 2025.
Several divisions of General Sessions Criminal Court and all divisions of City Court will be closed a second day Tuesday as work continues on damage from a June water leak. Meanwhile, air conditioning problems in the Shelby County Jail have improved.
Shelby County Sheriff’s Office officials outlined a series of hazards at the main jail, including a diesel fuel leak and air conditioning failure, and called out Mayor Lee Harris for failing to address life-threatening conditions inside the facility.
Jail employees are warning Shelby County officials of extreme heat, rising medical emergencies, and what they describe as “cruel conditions” inside the facility after month-long air conditioning issues.
The Walter L. Bailey Criminal Justice Center reopened Wednesday, July 1, after a two-day shutdown by a Health Department order after a water main burst and flooded the lower level. 201 Poplar reopening Wednesday but long-term questions remainRelated content:
A water line break leaves the Walter L. Bailey Criminal Justice Center temporarily closed, forcing some courts to reschedule dates and pause operations. Related content:
The inmate was arrested May 27 after allegedly stealing $258.91 in merchandise from a local TJ Maxx.
Marcel Hutton, 35, was found unresponsive in the Shelby County Jail around 7 p.m. on Dec. 21, 2025.
The suit says Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr. and Mayor Lee Harris “have engaged in an extraordinary public campaign of mutual finger-pointing ... while people continue to die.”
U.S. District Judge Brian Lea is now presiding over the case regarding the death of an inmate who died after an altercation with guards at the jail in October 2022.
Details of the death of Dalton Goddard, 24, who died Oct. 29 at Shelby County Jail have been released.
An inmate from the Shelby County Jail died from COVID-19 complications and heart disease in November, according to his official autopsy report.
According to an official autopsy report, heart disease claimed Antonio First, who died Nov. 1 at the Shelby County Jail.
The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office did not say what is believed to have caused the man’s death, which remains under investigation.
The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office responded to a recent Daily Memphian article detailing stories of recent inmates at local jails.
Stripped naked and doused with pepper spray. “Bugs galore.” Fellow inmates vomiting and defecating on themselves. Three people recently incarcerated at Shelby County Jail spoke to The Daily Memphian about their experiences.
The latest death marks at least the third such fatality in the last 10 days and the 10th so far this year.
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.
A Shelby County Jail inmate who died this summer possibly died from being pepper-sprayed by jail staff, according to his official autopsy report.
The man who died is at least the ninth person to die in the jail this year and at least the 66th since 2019, based on records and reporting by The Daily Memphian.
As Task Force arrests swell population at Shelby County Jail, another inmate is found dead in his cell.
The Shelby County Jail’s population is expanding amid a surge in arrests by the Memphis Safe Task Force. One judge told The Daily Memphian he saw 50 to 70 more cases last week than in a typical week.