Clora Adkins has over 27 years of practical work experience at the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Center, one of the largest local corrections systems in the United States. She has extensive experience and expertise in the daily operation and staffing of small, medium, and large jail facilities. Ms. Adkins holds a bachelor’s degree in Organizational Leadership from St. Thomas University in Miami, Florida.
Ms. Adkins, has extensive experience in intake and screening procedures; staff negligence; staff use-of-force; prisoner access to medical and mental health care; in-custody deaths; inmate suicide; sexual assault by staff/other prisoner; conditions of confinement; inmate classification, housing and supervision; strip/body cavity searches; jail record procedures; accommodations for disabled prisoners; jail/prison standards, policies and procedures; and the training of correctional staff, and supervisors.