The Detention Center
Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department — Pre-Trial Detention Center, Metro West Detention Center, Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and Boot Camp Program
- Operated byMiami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department (county department)
- Pre-Trial Detention Center1321 NW 13th Street, Miami, FL 33125 — designed capacity 1,458; average daily population 1,202 (2025 PREA audit report posted by MDCR)
- Metro West Detention Center13850 NW 41st Street, Miami, FL 33178 — designed capacity 2,984; average daily population 2,354 (2023 PREA audit report posted by MDCR)
- Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center7000 NW 41st Street, Miami, FL 33166 — release point for all inmates
- Boot Camp ProgramFor convicted offenders aged 14-24; ACA-accredited since 2004 (MDCR page)
- Daily populationMDCR states between 4,500 and 5,000 persons daily; FY2025-26 budget targets about 4,700
- BudgetFY2025-26 adopted: $561,474 thousand; 3,086 full-time positions
- Replacement jailMaster Plan Replacement Jail Project: $446.824 million, funded by future financing bond proceeds ($417.583 million) and Building Better Communities GO Bond proceeds ($29.241 million)
- Jail AdministratorSherea Green, Director, Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department
Source: Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation — Contact · checked 2026-09-28
Transparency rating
7/10Open- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✓Independent inspection
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✓How to post bond
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsDesigned capacity: Pre-Trial Detention Center 1,458; Metro West 2,984 (MDCR-posted PREA audits)
Since then
- Master Plan Replacement Jail Project, $446.824 million (FY2025-26 adopted budget)
The Sheriff
Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz
- Runs the jailNo — the jails are run by Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department (MDCR), a county department, not the Sheriff's Office
- OfficeMiami-Dade Sheriff's Office (mdso.com); the county's old police-department web address now redirects there
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term; the elected sheriff's office took over from the county police department in January 2025
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office — home page · checked 2026-09-28
The Judges
Florida's circuit and county judges are elected state judicial officers, not county officials. A judge sets the first conditions of release at first appearance, within 24 hours of arrest.
Who sets bail in Miami-Dade County
- Circuit Court: Florida's Eleventh Judicial Circuit, which serves Miami-Dade County alone (Fla. Stat. 26.021). Circuit judges are elected circuit-wide to six-year terms and hear felonies.
- County Court: the Miami-Dade County Court. County judges are elected countywide to six-year terms and hear misdemeanors.
Still needed
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-28
The Board of County Commissioners
They pay for the jail. In most counties the sheriff runs it; in some, the county does.
- What they controlThe sheriff's budget, including its separate line for corrections and detention: the sheriff submits it by June 1 and the board may amend, increase or reduce it (Fla. Stat. 30.49). The board also owns the jail building, and it decides by ordinance whether the sheriff or a county corrections department runs the jail (Fla. Stat. 951.061).
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations where the sheriff runs the jail. The sheriff is separately elected, and can appeal the board's budget cuts to the Governor and Cabinet sitting as the Administration Commission. No state agency inspects the jail; peer inspectors from other sheriffs' offices do.
- Note13 commissioners elected from 13 districts; the county also has an elected County Mayor. Legislative agendas and items are searchable through the county's govaction system.
- The boardMiami-Dade Board of County Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Jails are run by the county's Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department (Director Sherea Green), not the Sheriff's Office; checks were judged on miamidade.gov.
- Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz is named on the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office own home page (mdso.com).
- County posts its own copy of the 2022 Florida Model Jail Standards inspection report (inspected Nov 7-10, 2022 by a team from the Monroe, Palm Beach and Broward sheriffs' offices; the report lists ten minor findings, e.g. cracked mattresses, shower ratios and bunk spacing, and says physical-plant items await the replacement-jail project). That report named the then-director, James Reyes; the current MDCR page names Sherea Green.
- MDCR posts PREA annual reports 2022-2024 and PREA audit reports 2023 (Metro West), 2024 (TGK) and 2025 (PTDC), each with 0 standards not met, plus a daily jail-population dashboard.
- Online in-custody search on miamidade.gov shows charges, bond amount and booking data.
- Inmate Release page explains release routes: Pretrial Services, ROR, promise to appear, citations and commercial bail; bond amounts by phone (786-263-7000).
- FY2025-26 adopted budget narrative for Corrections and Rehabilitation: $561,474 thousand, 3,086 positions.
- Vendors named (Securus phones, GTL video visits, TouchPay deposits, iCare commissary) but no rates posted; no deaths-in-custody record or contracts found.
- Seat source is MDCR's contact page (Miami facility addresses); no county page stating the seat was opened.
- What was tried: https://www.miamidade.gov/global/corrections/home.page refused before the search, opened after it.
- State inspection/oversight: Florida requires every county jail to meet the Florida Model Jail Standards and to be inspected each year, but the inspectors come from other sheriffs' offices, not a state agency, and state law does not require the reports to be published.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Miami-Dade County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff is elected. So are the county commissioners who pay for the jail, and the judges who set bail.
Names verified 2026-09-28 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered