Inmates and families of incarcerated people harmed or killed by medical malpractice conducted at state prisons that contracted with the former medical group Corizon will not see restitution for damages after the company split in two in order to protect its corporate earnings from payouts and debts.
Corizon contracted with the Arizona...
Last Friday, U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver ruled that the state of Arizona has violated the constitutional rights of people incarcerated at state-run prisons by failing to provide them with adequate healthcare, including behavioral health services.
Judge Silver determined that there are not enough healthcare employees to care for...
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...
The federal trial to determine whether or not the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR) has provided inadequate healthcare to incarcerated people is now in its third week.
Last week, the prosecution brought medical expert Todd Wilcox to the stand to establish a history of malfeasance by the...
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...
Coronavirus cases are beginning to infiltrate Arizona prisons and the odds are stacked against the facilities where inmates live in close quarters, bathe communally and have little opportunity for isolation, all while being under the same roof as another few hundred people for 24 hours, seven days a week.
The conditions are even...Arizona News
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
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
The Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) filed an appeal asking the court to throw out a contempt citation against its director along with a $1.4 million fine for not adequately improving the healthcare of 33,000 inmates in state-run Arizona prisons.
The appeal was filed two days after the department was threatened with more fines...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
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...