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Two Democrats who sometimes vote with Republicans responded to backlash over mailers sent by a conservative group supporting their campaigns for reelection.
Commissioners approved about $500,000 to the Shelby County Sheriff's Office to spend on advertising to recruit new employees in a challenging work force environment.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two Shelby County deputy jailers have been indicted on charges they beat an inmate at the jail in May. Jailers Reginald Wilkins, 39, and Odell Underwood, 54, are charged with official repression and official misconduct, both felonies, and simple assault. They are listed in the county jail roster with $20,000 bonds. Sheriff […]
Six corrections deputies pleaded not guilty Friday to charges ranging from murder to aggravated assault in the beating and death of a Black man who was having a psychotic episode in a Memphis jail last year. In all, nine Shelby County deputies were charged in September in the October 2022 death of Gershun Freeman, 33, who was an inmate at the county jail. Authorities said the jailers punched, kicked and kneeled on Freeman's back during a confrontation after he ran from his jail cell.