A U.S. District Court judge has made permanent an order that aims to improve the way Arizona delivers health care to incarcerated people in state-run prisons.
The injunction issued Friday by Judge Roslyn Silver is the latest effort to ensure Arizona prisons meet constitutional standards. She initially ruled last year that Arizona had beenby providing them with inadequate medical and mental health care, saying the state knew about the problem for years but refused to correct its failures.
The injunction gives the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry three months to hire more people to support the health care staff. "As a matter of common decency, an order should not be required to prompt defendants to repair leaking pipes, repair inoperative toilets, or collect trash," Silver said in a footnote. "However, defendants’ conduct throughout this litigation demonstrated defendants cannot be relied upon to perform such basic tasks."Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed an executive order on Jan.
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