jail deaths

In response to recent inmate deaths, the county gave over $1 million to a program that offers care, housing and transportation to people with mental health or substance abuse issues

The man pleaded multiple times to get his medication to prevent organ rejection and was denied. It's not the first time the jail's medical contractor was involved in an inmate's death.

About a month ago, the Miami Herald reported that a mentally ill inmate at the Dade Correctional Institution died at the hands of jail guards,…

The deaths of two jail inmates -- one in Miami-Dade, the other in Tampa -- have officials investigating how the system failed to protect them. In the…

Lake Worth health policy consultant Paul Gionfriddo, who blogs at Our Health Policy Matters, writes today about two sad cases in which African-Americans…