PHOENIX (AP) — A judge presiding over a nearly 12-year-old lawsuit challenging the quality of health care in Arizona’s prisons is considering whether to launch a third contempt-of-court proceeding against the state for failing to improve prisoner care.
Arizona’s system for providing medical and mental health care for the nearly 25,000 people incarcerated in its state-run prisons remains “fundamentally lacking,” U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver said, and prisoners are at risk.
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