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Carol Marbin Miller
Carol Marbin Miller

Carol Marbin Miller is a senior investigative reporter at the Miami Herald. Marbin Miller began covering social welfare programs at the St. Petersburg Times in the 1990s. She joined The Miami Herald in 2000 and has reported extensively on Florida's services to children as well as the state's juvenile justice system.

  1. How Florida’s lax oversight of elder care homes undermines its COVID-19 response
    May 9, 2020• Health
    The Rehabilitation Center of Hollywood Hills, 1200 N. 35th Ave.
  2. Already boosted by DeSantis, Florida’s nursing homes want another favor — this one big
    April 15, 2020• Health
    The 180-bed Atria Willow Wood in Fort Lauderdale.
  3. Florida won’t say which elder care homes have coronavirus
    March 26, 2020• Health
    Fears of a possible coronavirus cluster increase in Fort Lauderdale assisted living facilities. Administrators at the 180-bed Atria Willow Wood ALF informed residents and their loved ones Friday that a second resident of the home had died from COVID-19, the disease cause by the extremely contagious respiratory infection that has spurred a pandemic. The second death linked to the virus appears to be of a 93-year-old man whose test for the disease initially was reported to be negative.
  5. Florida’s coronavirus hot spot is this Fort Lauderdale assisted living facility
    March 20, 2020• Health
    Richard and Sheila Curren. He died this week from COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus.
  6. Nikolas Cruz's birth mom had a violent, criminal past. Could it help keep him off Death Row?
    Sept. 5, 2018• News
    Brenda Woodard (left) gave up Nikolas Cruz for adoption shortly after giving birth. A career criminal, Woodard never again met Cruz, who would grow up to commit a deadly school shooting in Parkland. Now, Cruzâ\u0080\u0099s defense attorneys may use his genetics to try and spare him the death penalty. Woodward image [Florida Department of Corrections via AP] Cruz image [Amy Beth Bennett/Sun Sentinel/TNS]
  7. A victim of vile abuse at Florida reform school, he spent his life fighting for justice
    July 14, 2018• News
    DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times files Robert Straley, 70, of Clearwater, shares memories of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. Survivors have a Senate Resolution being considered by the legislature this session acknowledging the abuses experienced by children confined in the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys and expressing the Legislature\u2019s regret for such abuses and the commitment to ensure that the children of the State of Florida are protected from the abuses and violations that took place at the facility. the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, or the Dozier School for Boys, had campuses in Marianna and Okeechobee, Florida, and was operated by the State of Florida from 1900 until 2011, when the school closed after allegations of abuse were confirmed in separate investigations by the Department of Law Enforcement in 2010 and the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice in 2011. State and federal investigations revealed that many of the boys who had been sent to the Dozier School for Boys reported credible instances of being physically, psychologically, and sexually abused by staff members at the school. (DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times)
  8. Beset by rapes, rats, scalding, Florida home for disabled could lose license
    April 27, 2018• Health
    The campus of Carlton Palms Educational Center in Mount Dora. [Carlton Palms]
  9. Authorities considered committing future school killer Nikolas Cruz. Here's why they didn't
    March 20, 2018• News
    Nikolas Cruz is escorted into the courtroom for his arraignment at the Broward County Courthouse on March 14, 2018, in in Fort Lauderdale. Cruz is accused of opening fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Feb. 14, killing 17 students and adults. [Pool photo by Amy Beth Bennett via Getty Images]
  10. Acclaimed designer of FIU bridge says collapse 'unprecedented.' But is it?
    March 17, 2018• News
    After the catastrophic collapse of the Sunshine Skyway bridge when it was struck by a vessel, FIGG Bridge designed the replacement
  11. After Parkland, admissions to mental health treatment centers in Florida spike
    Feb. 24, 2018• Health
    Nikolas Cruz appears in court for a status hearing before Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer on February 19, 2018 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Cruz is facing 17 charges of premeditated murder in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. (Photo by Mike Stocker-Pool/Getty Images)
  12. School shooter may get inheritance — and be ordered to spend it on legal bills
    Feb. 21, 2018• The Education Gradebook
    Nikolas Cruz appears in court for a status hearing before Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer on Monday, Feb. 19, 2018. Mike Stocker TNS
  13. Shooter cut himself on Snapchat, but was ruled stable
    Feb. 17, 2018• Nation & World
    A video monitor shows school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz, center, making an appearance before Judge Kim Theresa Mollica in Broward County Court, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Cruz is accused of opening fire Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., killing more than a dozen people and injuring several. (Susan Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool) FLLAU502
  14. Column: A call to action on public records in Florida
    Jan. 26, 2018• Opinion
  15. Amid reports of rapes, beatings, cover-ups, grand jury to probe juvenile justice abuses
    Dec. 7, 2017• Opinion
    A Miami Herald investigation found that youths detained in state facilities have complained of staff turning them into hired mercenaries, offering honey buns and other rewards to rough up fellow detainees. The series has sparked a grand jury investigation. [Miami Herald]
  16. How small rebellions by Florida delinquents snowball into bigger beatings by staff
    Oct. 13, 2017• Florida Politics
    Okaloosa Youth Academy Gulf Coast Youth Services
  17. Criminal record? Horrible work history? Florida juvenile justice will still hire you
    Oct. 12, 2017• News
    From left to right, Sara Erin Martin, Uriah T. Harris and Tommy Williams were hires the juvenile justice system would eventually regret. [Miami Herald]
  18. Fight Club: Dark secrets of Florida juvenile justice
    Oct. 11, 2017• Florida Politics
    A Miami Herald investigation found that youths detained in state facilities have complained of staff turning them into hired mercenaries, offering honey buns and other rewards to rough up fellow detainees. It is a way for employees to exert control without risking their livelihoods by personally resorting to violence. Criminal charges are rare. [Miami Herald]
  19. Mother whose Miami teen livestreamed suicide describes events of that night
    March 17, 2017• News
    Gina Alexis, center, mother of 14-year-old Nakia Venant, who livestreamed her suicide on Facebook, pauses as she talks about her daughter during a news conference, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017, in Plantation. Nakia Venant's suicide is at least the third to be livestreamed nationally in the last month. [Associated Press]
  20. Defy me and I'll jail you, judge in Facebook Live suicide case tells DCF lawyer
    March 2, 2017• News
    Miami-Dade Judge Maria Sampedro-Iglesia said that a regional child welfare director could be arrested if she doesn't appear at a March 8 hearing "to show cause why they should not be held in indirect civil contempt of court." [Peter Andrew Bosch | Miami Herald]
  21. Hundreds of people watched a Miami teen kill herself in a live stream video, but no one got her help in time
    Jan. 26, 2017• News
    Among items posted on Facebook was a haunting text message exchange involving Naika Venant, who hanged herself at a Miami Gardens foster home while live-streaming on Facebook.
  22. Miami girl, 14, hangs herself while streaming it live
    Jan. 25, 2017• News
    An image of Nakia Venant on her Facebook page. On the social media platform where she liked to post personal videos, some longer than an hour, she called herself Hothead Nikee. (Facebook/Miami Herald)
  23. Extra! Extra! Miami's Trump video archive is … snoozeworthy, not newsworthy
    Oct. 14, 2016• Florida Politics
    Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives for a meeting with local business leaders before a campaign rally Thursday at the South Florida Fairgrounds and Convention Center in West Palm Beach. [Associated Press]
  24. Transgender inmate challenging Florida prison laws found dead in cell
    Aug. 16, 2016• News
    Justin Lee Naber, a Florida state prisoner who sought to be known legally as Stacy Lorraine Naber, was found dead in her cell on Aug. 6 at Dade Correctional Institution in Florida City. [Florida Department of Corrections, via Miami Herald]