Questions continue to swirl around how, where new jail could happen
Shelby County Commissioners Michael Whaley (left) and Miska Clay Bibbs attend a retreat on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
The maneuvering for a new jail plan at the site of the old Firestone plant in North Memphis has been pushed off until at least October.
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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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