Five years after a settlement was reached, Judge Roslyn Silver is ordering the Arizona Department of Corrections (DOC) to act, presenting three options: comply with the settlement, create a new settlement, or go to trial. Both parties were given until Oct. 23 to decide and inform the court.
Silver's order follows a recent report...Arizona News
Special expert appointed by U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver to review Arizona prison healthcare submitted a report on Oct. 4 recommending the state to steer clear of privatizing inmate healthcare and recommended that Silver instead override a state law requiring Arizona to contract healthcare for prisons from third parties. Following...Arizona News
Following a town hall held in downtown Phoenix on July 31 to discuss the state's prison system, Arizona Department of Corrections Director Charles Ryan announced his resignation, bringing to a close 40 years in the industry.
The town hall was littered with vehement pleas to fire the controversial director after citing various...Arizona News
Last summer Arizona Department of Corrections (DOC) Director Charles Ryan was found to be in civil contempt-of-court in a federal judge ruling, but Governor Doug Ducey has continuously expressed confidence in Ryan to run Arizona prisons. At a town hall last week, various attendees called for the firing of the director after recounting...Arizona News
After years of noncompliance in inmate care, U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver threatened additional fines of more that $1 million earlier last month and now the Arizona Department of Corrections (DOC) is asking her to hold off on imposing the financial penalties.
The inmate lawsuit was settled in 2015, but over three years later,...Arizona News
After years of litigation, settlements and agreements, a judge presiding over the legal settlement concerning the quality of inmate care in Arizona’s prisons has raised the possibility of throwing out the four-year agreement and resuming with litigations.
This follows the state’s continuous noncompliance with the mandates...Arizona News
Lawyers representing over 34,000 inmates, whom are challenging the quality of healthcare in Arizona's prisons, are looking for another $1.6 million from the state in additional litigations fees. Since filing the lawsuit in March of 2012, the prisoner's attorneys have incurred $6.1 million in legal costs.
Following the 2014...Arizona News
The Parson v. Ryan saga continues to drag on for nearly five years. Before retirement in June, U.S. Magistrate Judge David Duncan issued a series of orders in response to a lack of progress from the Department of Corrections (DOC) and Corizon.
In a statement, CEO of Corizon Health Stephen Rector said the court failed to recognize...
For failing to improve inmate healthcare following a 2014 lawsuit, the Arizona Department of Corrections was found to be in civil contempt of court along with its Director Charles Ryan and Medical Director Richard Pratt.
A judge on June 22, found Arizona’s prisons chief to be in civil contempt of court and fined the state $1.4...
Charles Ryan, director of Arizona’s Department of Corrections (DOC), has now lost an appeal of a court order issued to him in Oct. 2017 by U.S. Magistrate Judge David K. Duncan.
The case has been closely monitored by Duncan since its settlement in 2014 due to continued noncompliance with standard prison healthcare regulations. A...
