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Posted by: Kate Prince on Mar 19, 2020

Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall said today that some inmates will be released in response to the COVID-19 threat, the Tennessean reports. “It’s critical we reduce the inmate population now,” Hall said in the statement. He also encouraged others in the criminal justice system to do the same. Approximately 15 people will be released immediately. In Memphis, Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner told the Daily Memphian that he lacks the authority to release detainees, but will work to review the files of nonviolent inmates who could then be passed to the courts for release consideration.