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In December 2021, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics released a report showing the number of homicides in state and federal institutions in 2019 was almost quadruple that of 2001.

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

Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony Tells tells the "South Florida Roundup" that jails have become the go-to mental health facility in the country and he thinks can resolve the issues.

The sheriff's office notified Armor Correctional Health Services that it violated its contract to provide health care at the Duval jail.

The Duval County jail will cut ties with Armor Correctional Health Services after a former inmate died. The new provider, NaphCare, also has raised questions.

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.

The U.S. jail population has a 55% weekly turnover rate, raising the risk of infections passing between communities, according to the study.

The state had already anticipated a reduction in J&J allocations and was using the two-dose Moderna vaccine instead.

A Florida group is working to shift the "narrative that not everyone who commits a felony should be written off for the rest of their life."

With many U.S. prisons on lockdown amid the pandemic, keeping prisoners in their cells has emerged as a way to stop viral spread. Advocates worry that will increase the use of solitary confinement.