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Rebookings of immigrants into local jails are an effort to circumvent federal rules and regulations, legal experts say. ProPublica's nationwide analysis shows that in the past year, two Florida jails had unusually high numbers of rebookings.

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…