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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 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 .
As of 2019, the hospital had 350 medical residents in 30 different programs. [1] The resident physicians at the Larkin Community Hospital obtain training and experience working at affiliated training sites, including: Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Miami, Florida; Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio; Borinquen Health Care Center ...
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 ...
An essential component of mental health court programs for protection of the public is a dynamic risk management process that involves court supervised case management with interactive court review and assessment. As in other problem-solving courts, the judge in a mental health court plays a larger role than a judge in a conventional court ...
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.
An alternative mental health court to compel treatment for people with severe mental illness has received more than 100 petitions since launching in seven California counties in October, state ...