TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 18, 2020

Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner says he and others who run the Shelby County Jail are doing what they can to deal with the COVID-19 virus, the Daily Memphian reports. “We’re separating them. We are isolating them,” he said about prisoners at the facility. His comments come two days after a federal lawsuit over pandemic measures at the jail was amended to call for the release of prisoners at a high risk for contracting the virus. The new filing came from attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union and Just City, a criminal justice reform group. They claim there are “horrid conditions” at the jail despite the presence of a federal monitor.