Special commission meeting on detention center funding draws fire
Plans for a newly built detention center Downtown were dropped for a renovation of the old Shelby Training Center on Old Getwell Road that, in its last use, was owned by the private prison company Core Civic. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)
County Commission Chair Willie Brooks denied that the meeting was called to try to hide the 8-0 vote on emergency funding for the project.
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