A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Arizona state prison system's health care services to be put under the control of a court-appointed receiver after finding it was still subjecting incarcerated people to unconstitutional medical neglect, despite a decade-old lawsuit settlement to fix the problems.
Judge Roslyn Silver of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona ruled that—after years of litigation, numerous findings of neglect and preventable deaths, and over $2 million in contempt fines—the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry (ADCRR) remained out of compliance with both a 2015 lawsuit settlement and the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution.
