Release Date: December 29, 2019
Author: Jakob Rodgers
SPECIAL REPORT: A look at Miami-Dade’s vaunted quest to decriminalize mental illness
MIAMI — Justin Volpe could hardly believe his eyes.
Strung out and delusional, gripped by a crippling psychosis, Volpe questioned if what he was seeing was real — was a fellow inmate in a Miami-area jail being bludgeoned by jail guards to within a whisper of his life?
But he had a hunch.
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