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| Arizona prisoners win class-action status in health suit |
| By azcentral.com- Bob Ortega |
| Published: 06/06/2014 |
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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld the class-action status of a lawsuit alleging that Arizona's prison system overuses solitary confinement and provides inadequate health care. The ruling essentially clears the way for the suit to go to trial in October. It also means that the more than 34,000 inmates in Arizona's 10 state-run prisons will be part of the suit, first filed in 2012, seeking wide-ranging changes in how the state's Department of Corrections confines inmates and treats — or fails to treat — their health- and mental-health-care problems. Read More. |
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