The Judge Who Remembered the Forgotten
In 2015, Judge Steven Leifman of Miami-Dade County stood in his courtroom and watched the same faces cycle through again and again — homeless men...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14.
In 2015, Judge Steven Leifman of Miami-Dade County stood in his courtroom and watched the same faces cycle through again and again — homeless men and women with untreated mental illness, arrested for minor offenses, jailed, released, and arrested once more. Nobody in the system saw them as people worth saving. Leifman refused to look away. He built the Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery, replacing the county's crumbling, warehouse-style facility with a place designed around dignity.…
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