‘The system is failing’: Broward hopes new arrest diversion program will help prevent jail deaths

With 21 inmates having died in Broward jails over the last five years, the NAACP this month asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the Broward Sheriff’s Office. WLRN’s Gerard Albert looks at their cases – and whether a new county program is enough. Last October, Alvin Modeste’s…

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