The Tristin Murphy Act was signed into law by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Murphy’s story gained attention as the subject of the CBS News Miami documentary “Warehoused: The Life and Death of ...

MIAMI — For the first time, CBS News Miami hears from the judge who sentenced Tristin Murphy to state prison for rolling his pickup into a pond next to the Charlotte County jail.

Named the “Tristin Murphy Act” after a Charlotte County man who died by suicide, the bill passed unanimously in the Florida Senate.

Tristin Murphy's case On Sept. 16, 2021, 37-year-old Tristin Murphy, who had been arrested and sent to prison on a littering charge, killed himself with a chainsaw at a state prison just west of ...

The Tristin Murphy Act aims to expand resources for mental health victims who encounter law enforcement. The House had multiple proposed amendments to the bill, however, the Senate disapproved of ...

On Friday evening, the Florida Legislature formally passed the Tristin Murphy Act, the most comprehensive reform to mental health inside the criminal justice system in decades. 33,187 people ...

But the life and tragic death of Tristin Murphy, at the heart of a documentary film by WFOR-TV CBS Miami journalist Jim DeFede, needs to do more than shock us. It should make us mad.