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Judge orders Miami-Dade to increase coronavirus protections at Metro West Detention Center
Read full article: Judge orders Miami-Dade to increase coronavirus protections at Metro West Detention CenterMIAMI – Anthony V. Swain lives with paraplegia, paralysis of the legs and lower body. He is one of the hundreds of prisoners at the Metro West Detention Center who are afraid of the coronavirus pandemic. Juan Diasgranados, a spokesman for MDCR, released a statement on Wednesday morning confirming the department had received the temporary restraining order. The temporary restraining order "largely reiterates the steps already in place across the MDCR system,” Diasgranados wrote. He is facing charges of conspiring to traffic oxycodone, traffic in illegal drugs, 26 counts of unlawful use of a communications device and racketeering.