Preliminary Injunction Granted for Miami Jail To Follow CDC Guidelines Amid COVID-19 Outbreak

In federal court on April 29, Advancement Project National Office, Community Justice Project, Inc., Civil Rights Corps, GST LLP, DLA Piper and Dream Defenders, won an order for Miami’s Metro West Detention Center to follow the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) Health Guidelines for the next 45 days.

This preliminary injunction comes after the groups won a Temporary Restraining Order against Miami-Dade Department of Corrections on April 7, requiring Metro West Detention Center Metro West to provide basic sanitizing items to the almost 2,000 people confined there, to protect vulnerable people inside the jail.