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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 ...
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.
The 1971 legislation was nicknamed the "Baker Act" after state representative Maxine Baker (D–Miami), [8] who served from 1963 to 1972. She was strongly interested in mental health issues, served as chair of the House Committee on Mental Health, and sponsored the bill.
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 ...
Miami-Dade Judge Steven Leifman, instrumental in setting up Miami-Dade’s mental health court, appeared in the case as a witness. He stated that that once Stephens is free from prison, he will be ...
The Florida Civil Commitment Center, located at 13619 Highway 70, Arcadia, Florida, is a mental health/correctional facility which houses sex offenders civilly committed. The site is that of the former DeSoto Correctional Work Camp, adjacent to the DeSoto Correctional Institution. [1]
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]
Federal civil-rights lawyers sued Miami-Dade in 2011, alleging the jail system provided shoddy mental-health care for inmates and wasn’t taking the right steps to prevent suicides behind bars.