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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 12, 2026

Growing Rutherford County faces competing taxpayer priorities over the construction of a $300 million jail and a $138 million high school, the Daily News Journal reports. County mayor Joe Carr wants to move first on replacing the Rutherford County Adult Detention Center and Sheriff's Office at 940 New Salem Highway in Murfreesboro. Most local officials agree that the overcrowded, aging jail needs replacing after costly repairs and inmate deaths, overdoses and escapes. Under tentative plans, a new jail with "modern" rehabilitation "principles" would be operational by Spring 2030. The paper explores the issues in a three-part series. Read the first and second installments here.