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Miami-Dade's corrections department remains under court supervision, and a federal judge is getting more frustrated about suicides in county jails.

Indigency applications, filed when a person has been charged with a crime, are the gateway to a poor person’s court process. Before they can reap these benefits, though, they must pay a fee of $50.

Over the past five years, 21 people have died while in custody of the Broward Sheriff's Office. Now groups are pushing for federal investigations.

It says more than $2.2 billion is needed to fix issues such as leaking roofs, and adding air conditioning to existing prisons.

A team of court-appointed monitors say they have "guarded optimism" that Miami-Dade jails have improved enough to satisfy the DOJ.

After a record number of deaths last year in Miami-Dade jails, the corrections department may face sanctions if it doesn't show improvement by the fall.

Miami-Dade County jails charge inmates $2 a day for room and board, a fee that’s rarely paid and creates a shadow economy behind bars that administrators want to eliminate.

This post will be updated today, Wednesday, Jan. 27, and through the week with the latest information on COVID-19 in South Florida.

Bidding for the construction of the new complex is expected to start next month.

Carlos Saddler shares what it was like for him to live with COVID-19 in jail over the summer.

The number of inmates in Miami-Dade County jails who have tested positive for COVID-19 has exploded in recent days.That’s according to a document filed in…

The day Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a public health state of emergency over COVID-19, there were 3,897 people incarcerated in Miami-Dade County’s…