In a report filed on January 7, 2025, court-appointed experts in Jensen v. Thornell 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.” The experts found that “it will be difficult, but more likely impossible, for [the prison system] to emerge on the other side of this Court’s Injunction if it continues to outsource the provision of health care.” The experts found that the state prison system “has insufficient leadership to promote the type of major change that has to be forthcoming in order to be compliant with the health care-related requirements of the Injunction.” The experts included in their 96 page report detailed discussion of a number of deaths in custody that illustrate the many compounding failures that preceded the deaths.