Fixing Shelby County Jail is key to justice system, Green says
New Interim Shelby County Chief Public Defender Jerri Green on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Interim Shelby County Public Defender Jerri Green talked on “Behind The Headlines” about dropping crime rates, the overflowing jail and the differing numbers used by different parts of the criminal justice system.
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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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