The Memphis City Council plans to vote for a restructuring of how the city will plan to repay their debts. The Memphis Mayor, A C Wharton Jr., has proposed the restructuring in order to postpose a future payment in 2020 that would cause the city’s annual payment go from $15 million the year before, to […]
Published
February 23, 2015
Thanks to the Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative, the number of young adults being detained in the Memphis and Shelby County Juvenile Court has decreased more than 65 percent since 2012. The program, enacted in 2012, aims to drastically reduce the number of juveniles being admitted into juvenile court for misdemeanor offenses; such as: domestic assaults […]