Opinion: A jail at Shelby Farms Park would be a destructive mistake
Crowds flocked to Shelby Farms on March 26, 2020. (Jim Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Laura Wolff Morris
Laura Wolff Morris is the former executive director of Shelby Farms Park Conservancy.
“A high-security jail inside Shelby Farms Park would destroy the very qualities that make it so valuable. ... There are more appropriate sites for a jail. But there is only one Shelby Farms Park.”
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