Editing Rutherford County, Tennessee (section)

===Sheriff and jail===
In 2008, the county built a $23,300,000 expansion to the county jail.<ref name="black_children_jailed_2021_10_08_propublica_org" /><ref name="work_begins_2007_02_16_murfreesboropost_com">{{cite news |last=Marchesoni |first=Lisa |date=February 16, 2007 |title=Work begins on $25 million juvenile, adult facilities |url=https://www.murfreesboropost.com/news/work-begins-on-25-million-juvenile-adult-facilities/article_b2c050d6-cda0-523a-99b4-cb81d884a7e7.html |work=Murfreesboro Post |access-date=October 12, 2021}}</ref>  It is alleged that some county officials viewed the jail as a for-profit business.<ref name="jail_promo_video_2021_10_07_propublica_on_youtube" /><ref name="work_begins_2007_02_16_murfreesboropost_com" />

In May 2016, Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold, his Chief Administrative Deputy Joe L. Russell and the sheriff's uncle were named in a 14-count federal indictment charging fraud, bribery, extortion, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy for operating an [[e-cigarette]] business, for personal gain, in the jail. State officials reported that the JailCigs business gained over $110,000 in revenues pocketed by Arnold and Russell. All pleaded guilty. Arnold was sentenced to 50 months in federal prison, his deputy to 15 months.<ref name="sheriff_pleads_guilty_2017-01-18_dnj_com">[https://www.dnj.com/story/news/2017/01/18/sheriff-arnold-pleads-guilty/96711572/ "Rutherford County sheriff pleads guilty to fraud, extortion,"] January 18, 2017, Murfreesboro ''[[Daily News Journal]]'' retrieved October 27, 2021</ref><ref name="former_deputy_2017_11_19_wmsr_am">[https://www.thunder1320.com/news/former-rutherford-county-sheriff-chief-administrative-deputy-headed-to-federal-prison/ "Former Rutherford County Sheriff Chief Administrative Deputy Headed to Federal Prison,"] [[WMSR (AM)]], retrieved October 27, 2021</ref><ref name="sheriff_sentenced_2017_05_04_justice_gov">[https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-tennessee-sheriff-sentenced-federal-corruption-charges "Former Tennessee Sheriff Sentenced on Federal Corruption Charges,"] May 4, 2017, Office of Public Affairs, [[U.S. Department of Justice]], retrieved October 27, 2021</ref> Sheriff Mike Fitzhugh replaced Arnold.<ref name="tbi_assisting_2017_11_17_murfreesboro_post">Stockard, Sam: [https://www.murfreesboropost.com/news/tbi-assisting-investigation-into-inmate-s-attempted-suicide/article_ee1fa948-cbcd-11e7-946e-5f20d2b5b8c8.html "TBI assisting investigation into inmate’s attempted suicide,"] November 17, 2017, ''Murfreesboro Post,'' retrieved October 27, 2021</ref> Sheriff's Major Terry McBurney pleaded guilty to unrelated charges, losing his citizenship.<ref name="major_expected_2017_01_26_tennessean_com">Barchenger, Stacey: USA Today Network - Tennessee: [https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/01/26/rutherford-sheriffs-major-expected-plead-guilty-corruption/97094242/ "Rutherford sheriff's major expected to plead guilty,"] January 26, 2017, ''[[Nashville Tennessean]],'' retrieved October 27, 2021</ref><ref name="mcburney_pleads_guilty_2016_04_15_murfreesboro_post">Stockard, Sam: [https://www.murfreesboropost.com/news/mcburney-pleads-guilty/article_9b0c126d-7255-57b4-b74e-f92e9dd5c3f8.html "McBurney pleads guilty,"] February 2, 2017, ''Murfreesboro Post,'' retrieved October 27, 2021</ref>

In December 2016, following multiple deaths in the jail that year, including two suicides<ref name="third_inmate_death_2016_04_15_murfreesboro_post">Stockard, Sam: [https://www.murfreesboropost.com/news/third-inmate-death-this-year/article_d5dc6fc2-16da-58b2-9097-5df4a0c0f023.html " Third inmate death this year ,"] April 15, 2016, ''Murfreesboro Post,'' retrieved October 27, 2021</ref><ref name="tbi_assisting_2017_11_17_murfreesboro_post" /><ref name="state_decertifies_2016_12_07_tennessean_com">Broden, Scott: [https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2016/12/07/state-decertifies-rutherford-county-jail/95093914/ "State decertifies Rutherford County jail,"]  December 7, 2016 ''[[Nashville Tennessean]],'' retrieved October 27, 2021</ref> (one resulting in a $260,000 lawsuit settlement against the county),<ref name="settlement_reached_2021_12_09_murfreesboropost">[https://www.murfreesboropost.com/news/settlement-reached-in-jail-suicide-lawsuit/article_1306346c-7dad-5d5b-8cba-f5265a6f28fd.html "Settlement reached in jail suicide lawsuit,"] December 9, 2016, updated October 26, 2017, ''Murfreesboro Post,'' retrieved October 27, 2021</ref> state inspectors decertified the jail, citing faults in the jail's policies, programs, staffing and the physical plant.<ref name="tbi_assisting_2017_11_17_murfreesboro_post" /><ref name="state_decertifies_2016_12_07_tennessean_com" /><ref name="jail_recertified_2017_06_07_dnj_com">Ragland-Hudgins, Mealand: [https://www.dnj.com/story/news/2017/06/07/rutherford-county-jail-recertified-state/378519001/ "Rutherford County jail recertified by state,"] January 18, 2017, Murfreesboro ''[[Daily News Journal]]'' retrieved October 27, 2021</ref> Following numerous changes to policies and facilities—particularly inmate supervision and monitoring, and converting 400 beds to [[bunk bed]]s, to allow the jail to hold 950 people—the jail was recertified in 2017.<ref name="tbi_assisting_2017_11_17_murfreesboro_post" /><ref name="jail_recertified_2017_06_07_dnj_com" />