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Court Experts Find People Are Dying Unnecessarily in Arizona State Prisons

January, 2025

(January 7, 2025) In a report filed today, court-appointed experts found “serious and pervasive systemic health care delivery failures” in Arizona state prisons that “place the residents at significant risk of serious harm, including death.” The experts told the judge: “And patients are dying. Unnecessarily.”

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Federal Judge Issues Final Injunction to Reform Arizona Prisons

April, 2023

(April 7, 2023) In a 57-page order, U.S. District Judge Roslyn O. Silver ordered substantial reform to the Arizona prison system. Judge Silver explained that the “unusual” order includes “significant detail regarding medical care, mental health care, and conditions imposed on the subclass to remedy the egregious constitutional violations” because of “the substantial dysfunction in Defendants’ operations.”

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Protecting the constitutional rights of people behind bars