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| Advocates allege inadequate care by prison health contractor |
| By tucsonsentinel.com - Anne M. Shearer |
| Published: 11/11/2013 |
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An advocacy group alleges that a private health care company contracted by the Arizona Department of Corrections has delayed inmate care, failed to provide medication and hasn’t offered any treatment at all to some needing it. At a Phoenix news conference to release a report detailing its allegations, the American Friends Service Committee called on the agency to terminate its contract with Brentwood, Tenn.-based Corizon, which has provided health care at all state prisons since March, replacing another private company. “While prisoners have always written to us complaining of the poor quality of medical care in the Arizona Department of Corrections, there was a noticeable uptick in the number and seriousness of these requests over the past year,” said Caroline Isaacs, director of the American Friends Service Committee’s Tucson office. Last year, the ACLU of Arizona filed a class-action lawsuit against the Department of Corrections over health care provided to inmates. Daniel Pochoda, legal director for the ACLU of Arizona, said that in his 40 years of prison litigation he’s never come across worse treatment of prisoners than in Arizona. A Department of Corrections spokesman said the agency wouldn’t comment on the group’s allegations due to the lawsuit. Read More. |
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