U.S. District Court Judge Rosalyn Silver made her order against the Arizona prison system permanent, in yet another ruling for the decade-long case now known as Jensen v. Thornell.
In the fall of 2021, Judge Silver found that court monitoring had not motivated Arizona prisons to improve its delivery of healthcare to inmates. The...
The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR) is currently embroiled in a landmark trial, facing new allegations of failure to meet the basic healthcare needs of inmates in violation of the Eighth Amendment's guarantee of basic medical care, hygiene and living conditions.
The American Civil Liberties Union...
After nearly ten years, a lawsuit challenging the quality of healthcare for more than 27,000 people incarcerated in Arizona’s prisons went to trial on Monday, November 1st.
The lawsuit was original filed in 2012, shortly before Arizona’s prison medical services were taken over by private contractors, a move that has not only...
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