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The Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation Department is an agency of the government of Miami-Dade County, Florida. It has its headquarters in the Gladeview census-designated place in an unincorporated area. [1] The agency has the eighth largest jail system in the United States. As of 2012 about 6,000 people are incarcerated in the ...
The Dade Correctional Institution (Dade CI or DCI) is a prison in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida, [2] near Florida City, [3] and south of Homestead, [4] in Greater Miami. It houses adult males. It opened in September 1996. [3] It is a part of the Florida Department of Corrections, and is right next to the Homestead Correctional ...
Miami-Dade County was the first in Florida to certify hurricane-resistant standards for structures which the Florida Building Code subsequently enacted across all requirements for hurricane-resistant buildings. Many other states reference the requirements set in the Florida Building codes, or have developed their own requirements for hurricanes.
After a decade of federal monitors faulting Miami-Dade County jails, inspectors say the Corrections Department has met all demands set by the U.S. Department of Justice in a 2013 lawsuit against ...
On January 1, 1968, the City of Miami Stockade is now leased to the county for a period of 30 years. On January 28, 1970, the Corrections & Rehabilitation Department was established by action of the Dade County Commission Section 8.01(D) and Section 4.02 of the Metropolitan Dade County Charter, and Administrative Order 9–22.
The government of Miami-Dade County is defined and authorized under the Constitution of Florida, Florida law, and the Home Rule Charter of Miami-Dade County. [ 1 ] Since its formation in 1957, Miami-Dade County, Florida has had a two-tier system of government.
Two items on the Nov. 8 ballot would alter Miami-Dade County’s charter to beef up the county’s legal defenses of its “home rule” autonomy against some state action.
The Miami-Dade County Commission committed to funding at least $3 million in total for the program in coming years, but Pumariega said she hopes the effort will continue after that runs out.