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Judge: Staffing shortage, lax COVID vaccine program put jail population ‘in deep peril’

Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr.: ‘We’re doing all that we can do’ to hire jail staff

<strong>The latest order in a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of immunocompromised people incarcerated at Shelby County jail outlines a stark reality behind bars.</strong>(Daily Memphian file)

In an order denying the county’s request to end a consent decree to monitor pandemic conditions in the jail, federal judge Sheryl H. Lipman wrote that the county has resorted to “box checking” rather than living up to its responsibility to keep people safe inside the jail.


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