Hundreds of jail inmates will be moved to combat overcrowding, sheriff says
“As far as the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office going out and detaining immigrants, that’s not happening,” Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner said. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Bonner also denied that his office is working with ICE to make immigration arrests and talked about inmate deaths at the jail, also known as 201 Poplar.
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Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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