From Courthouse News Service:
PHOENIX (CN) — A federal judge ordered Arizona’s Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry on Tuesday to completely fill vacant positions at two state prisons, dismissing arguments that the department lacks the funds necessary to comply with the order.
A year after U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver first ordered the department to increase staffing to provide better physical and mental health care to the more than 25,000 prisoners in Arizona’s nine state-run prison complexes, the prisons still aren’t in compliance.
An April 2023 permanent injunction — which came a year after Silver found at trial that the prison system “failed to provide, and continues to refuse to provide, a constitutionally adequate medical care and mental health care system for all prisoners” — identified specific staffing shortages in the department’s medical contractor NaphCare and required the vacancies to be filled by July 2023. Continue reading >>>
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