MIAMI JAILS IN CRISIS

Judge Kathleen Williams entered a TRO requiring Miami Pre-trial jails to provide basic cleaning services like access to soap and hot water and social distancing. The jails responded, according to one source, by interpreting the order to allow inmates to play basketball. See the email we received: 

I have a client at Metro West with a compromised immune system. I have been following the Judge Williams litigation. As you know she entered a TRO. My client called and said that they must have interpreted the order to mean allow the inmates to play basketball together. I want to get my guy out but he is a sentenced inmate. Could you post something so that we can gather further anecdotal evidence of what is going on there? Thanks

Thanks for your service and stay safe

If you have information that, as shocking as this may seem, the jails are slow to respond to the TRO and are not caring for clients who are incarcerated, post it in the comments section or email it to us and we will forward it. 

Ovalle covered the hearing and TRO  in the Herald here and DOM, meddling more and more in State court stuff, did a blog post here.