Davidson Co. Sheriff threatens to sue state over inmate backlog

State convicts held in Nashville are costing big money, says Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall, and now he’s going to sue the state over convicts wrongly left in his care.

For the past several years, Sheriff Hall has asked the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) to transfer inmates for placement in state prisons.

But he says he’s been ignored, and now there’s an overcrowding problem costing millions…

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