Arizona's Corrections Department Needs the Staff to Provide Appropriate Healthcare

Arizona's Corrections Department Needs the Staff to Provide Appropriate Healthcare

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Judge Roslyn Silver issued an order saying the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry is not complying with or has no way to evaluate most of the 184 healthcare changes she laid out and required last year. Some of the provisions include hiring more qualified staff, like doctors. A lawsuit was first filed by the ACLU and other parties in March 2012, claiming that Arizona's prison system was not providing adequate medical, mental and dental health care to people incarcerated.

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