MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shelby County leaders got a look Wednesday at a new plan to move the county’s jails and courts from 201 Poplar and Shelby Farms to a new, modern facility in North Memphis.
The proposed 71-acre site, formerly home to an old Firestone plant that closed in the 1980s, would be leased by the county with an option to purchase.
A new detention facility with beds for 3,000 male and female inmates, plus courts and sheriff’s office facilities, would be built on the site. The total estimated cost for the project is $1.26 billion…