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Posted by: Kate Prince on Mar 24, 2020

The Shelby County Commission on Monday agreed to buy the CoreCivic Shelby Training Center to use as a juvenile detention facility, the Daily Memphian reports. The county bought the space for $3.4 million and will invest another $12 million for renovations. The purchase resolves a potential problem of not meeting a December 2021 deadline to have juveniles whose cases have been transferred to adult court removed from adult detention facilities. The training facility was built for 200 individuals, but will be retrofitted to house about 146 juveniles.