Coronavirus Order For Miami Detention Facility Dashed on Appeal

A jail within the Miami-Dade County system doesn’t have to abide by the coronavirus-related requirements of a trial court’s order, a split Eleventh Circuit said Monday.

The Miami Metro West Detention Center has undertaken a series of responses that addresses the risk Covid-19 poses to inmates under its care, Judge Kevin C. Newsom said for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

That means that the inmates that have brought the lawsuit aren’t likely to succeed on their claims that the facility is being deliberately indifferent to their risk of infection during the course of the pandemic, the ...