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2. We spend millions jailing people with mental illness. How ...

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   The county spends $848,000 a day, or more than $310 million a year, to “warehouse” them, according to Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Steve Leifman, a champion for mental health reform in Miami ...

3. When new Miami center opens, arrestees with mental illness ...

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   Twenty-three years later, in 2008, conditions in Miami-Dade County jails were still so dismal for people with mental illness, the federal Department of Justice launched a three-year investigation.

4. We spend millions jailing people with mental illness. How ...

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   A new treatment center near Wynwood could be key to solving Miami-Dade County’s mental health crisis. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290 ...

5. Federal judge, citing inmate suicide, grills Miami-Dade ... - AOL

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   A long-planned mental health facility that would help reduce the number of people locked up in the county jail is still not open, and a federal judge is demanding answers.

6. Florida Department of Juvenile Justice - Wikipedia

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   Dade Juvenile Residential Facility (unincorporated Miami-Dade County) [66] Miami Youth Academy; Okeechobee Juvenile Offender Corrections Center ; Staff secure: Pompano Substance Abuse Treatment Center (Pompano Beach) [67] Palm Beach Youth Academy (West Palm Beach) Non-secure Broward Youth Treatment Center (Pembroke Pines) [68] Miami Halfway ...

7. Drug court - Wikipedia

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   The first drug court in the US took shape in Miami-Dade County, Florida in 1989 as a response to the growing crack cocaine problem plaguing the city. [21] Chief Judge Gerald Wetherington, Judge Herbert Klein, then State Attorney Janet Reno , and Public Defender Bennett Brummer designed the court for nonviolent offenders to receive treatment .

8. Mental health pros, not police, to respond to some calls ...

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   After years of calls for reform, the Miami-Dade Police Department is set to make a landmark change in how it deals with many cases involving the mentally ill. Instead of dispatching just officers ...

9. Everglades Correctional Institution - Wikipedia

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   The Everglades Correctional Institution (also ECI) is a Level 5 security prison facility for adult males in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, in the state of Florida, [2] near Miami. [3] Originally planned as a mental health facility, it was converted to a major Correctional institution in 1995. [citation needed]