Previously unregulated imaging chain SimonMed is now fully licensed by the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) following an incident involving a prison inmate and her guard.
Inmate Lacey Windust and a prison guard escorting her for imaging were both stuck to an MRI machine at a SimonMed Imaging Center in Avondale last...
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...
Last summer, the Alabama-based prison healthcare provider settled with the U.S. Department of Justice and paid $694,593 to resolve allegations it submitted false claims to the Federal Bureau of Prisons in connection with healthcare services provided to inmates. The Arizona Department of Corrections' approach to providing adequate...
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
The state's inmate lawsuit filed in 2012 is far from a case-closed as attorneys remain unsatisfied with Arizona prison healthcare conditions and request an additional round of contempt-of-court fines for the state's continued failure to comply with settlement requirements.
According to an AP News story, attorneys challenging the...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
In a press release issued Jan. 18, the Arizona Department of Corrections (DOC) announced that Centurion of Arizona was awarded the contract to deliver healthcare to inmates at 10 state-run prisons. Corizon previously held the contract and received a per diem increase in May of 2018, increasing the contract by $32.6 million following the...Arizona News
Last month, U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver appointed an expert to examine the state's compliance with the changes ordered in the settlement; Department of Corrections (DOC) Director Charles Ryan is appealing the designation of Dr. Marc Stern to the case.
Dr. Stern was appointed by presiding Judge Silver in light of complaints...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...