Apr 17, 2026 · 32 min · 10 segments
In advance of the upcoming county elections, we sat down with each of the seven candidates for Shelby County Sheriff to ask questions about the jail, immigration enforcement, and public safety. Here…
Anthony BucknerGuestJosh SpicklerHostyou will face and are already facing, frankly, because you already work in the sheriff's department, sheriff's office.
I mean, I think folks, most voters, some of our listeners probably know because they're just city listeners.
But the jail is a big, big, big part of really any sheriff's department, sheriff's office.
But the vast, I don't know, but the vast majority, but the majority of the resources from the sheriff's office go to that jail.
Many of the things that you mentioned are connected to the jail, transporting people to health care appointments and things like that.
And I think it's, you can push back and describe it how you want, but the jail's a mess.
It has been in the headlines a whole lot over the last few years for really bad things, deaths, long periods of time that it takes to book people in, long periods of time it takes to get people out, having to move folks across the county, maybe into other counties because we don't have room.
And it's going to be whoever wins this race, it's going to be the biggest challenge they have.
But let's drill down on one of those things and the overcrowding, like just the number of people in the jail.
And I'll start with one of the things that I found when I became the chief deputy two years ago was that we had close to 200 residents who had been sentenced by the court to serve time in the state penitentiary.
And for whatever reason, the state was only coming to get small numbers, small portions of those individuals.
you will face and are already facing, frankly, because you already work in the sheriff's department, sheriff's office.
I mean, I think folks, most voters, some of our listeners probably know because they're just city listeners.
But the jail is a big, big, big part of really any sheriff's department, sheriff's office.
But the vast, I don't know, but the vast majority, but the majority of the resources from the sheriff's office go to that jail.
Many of the things that you mentioned are connected to the jail, transporting people to health care appointments and things like that.
And I think it's, you can push back and describe it how you want, but the jail's a mess.
It has been in the headlines a whole lot over the last few years for really bad things, deaths, long periods of time that it takes to book people in, long periods of time it takes to get people out, having to move folks across the county, maybe into other counties because we don't have room.
And it's going to be whoever wins this race, it's going to be the biggest challenge they have.
But let's drill down on one of those things and the overcrowding, like just the number of people in the jail.
And I'll start with one of the things that I found when I became the chief deputy two years ago was that we had close to 200 residents who had been sentenced by the court to serve time in the state penitentiary.
And for whatever reason, the state was only coming to get small numbers, small portions of those individuals.
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