Weekly Update 2025-08-12-Homeless Face Civil Commitment

Weekly update for August 12, 2025. This is recording number 322. Dear Members and Advocates, The homeless registrant population in Miami-Dade County has broken 500 people. According to the FDLE database, there are a total of 596 individuals with a “transient” address in Miami-Dade listed on the sex offender registry. 28 are listed as absconded, 67 are in confinement, leaving

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JAMA Study shows dramatic increase in mortality risk among incarcerated and recently released.

A recent cohort study involving over 3.25 million U.S. adults examined the impact of individual and community-level incarceration on mortality rates. The findings revealed that individuals incarcerated at the time of the survey faced a 39% higher risk of all-cause mortality and more than triple the risk of overdose mortality compared to those not incarcerated. Additionally, higher county-level incarceration rates

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