County’s legal bills more than $341,000 as reported COVID conditions strain 201 Poplar
Inmates wear ties to a “business bonanza” meeting at 201 Poplar Ave. in 2019. Prisoners are protesting while a lawsuit in federal court over the county’s efforts to stem jail problems drags on. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)
The county is paying an average of $34,000 per month to a Jackson, Tennessee, law firm to represent Sheriff Floyd Bonner in a federal lawsuit.
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Matt Stroud, a former correspondent for Bloomberg News and The Associated Press, is an investigative reporter with The Daily Memphian. He is the author of “Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High-Tech Policing,” and the creator of the six-part podcast, “Guru: The Dark Side of Enlightenment.”
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