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Local advocates describe alleged abuse and neglect at Shelby County Jail; commissioners ask for investigation and oversight funding
Summary
A Just City representative read multiple inmate accounts alleging pepper-spraying, beatings, locked holding tanks, insufficient medical access and guards introducing contraband at the county jail; commissioners asked administration and sheriff's office to respond and to fund civilian review capacity.
During the public-comment period of the Shelby County Commission meeting, a representative from Just City presented testimony she said came from people currently or formerly detained at the Shelby County Jail at 201 Poplar Avenue. The accounts described repeated and severe allegations including pepper-spraying, physical assaults by officers, locked holding cells without medical response, poor climate control, officers allegedly bringing contraband into the facility…
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