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The Miami community had promoted their county through a yellow ribbon campaign for the new prison site because such a facility would provide needed local jobs that had been lost when the air force base, the county's largest employer, downsized. Construction of Phase I began in August 1997 and was ready for the first inmates to arrive in May 1999.
The Second General Assembly in 1838 allocated $20,000 ($572,000 today) to a state penitentiary in Little Rock. [5] The state purchased a 92.41-acre (37.40 ha) tract outside of Little Rock in 1839, and the Third General Assembly allocated another $40,500 ($1,236,000 today) in 1840 to finish construction of the Arkansas State Penitentiary.
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By 1950, the Dade County area had been reduced to its present size of approximately 2,139 square miles. In 1954, the City of Miami completed a jail lock-up called the Stockade at 7199 N.W. 41st Street. In 1956 the City of Miami occupied a new headquarters and jail and they leased the Stockade to the Public Safety Department.
That has to stop, and Miami-Dade County is leading the way. Thanks in large part to the decades-long and sustained efforts of County Judge Steven Leifman, there are programs making a difference.
An ex-Miami-Dade corrections officer must pay back more than $432,000 in pandemic relief loans to the U.S. government. Former Miami-Dade Corrections sergeant sent to prison for stealing COVID-19 ...
When a judge authorizes home detention for a Miami-Dade inmate, there’s a $128 catch: the cost of an ankle bracelet. It must be paid upfront. No more $100 ankle monitors as Miami-Dade ends ...
On October 10, 2013, FoxNews.com reported on how the United States federal government shutdown of 2013 was affecting employees at FCI Forrest City. Citing a story from WMC-TV, prison employees were unsure when the next time they would receive a paycheck amid the shutdown, but the inmates are continuing to get paid for jobs like landscaping.