miami-dade county corrections and rehabilitation

Miami-Dade County’s Jail Diversion Program is the topic of a new online docuseries that explores mental illness in the criminal justice system. The timely five-part series follows the Miami-Dade Criminal Mental Health Project (CMHP), and the work the organization has done to decriminalize mental health with its nationally hailed approach – steering people with mental illness from jail towards recovery….

Several civil rights groups have filed a federal lawsuit against the Miami-Dade County corrections department seeking an emergency order to release medically vulnerable inmates at one of its main jail sites.