The order describes detailed steps Arizona prison officials must take to bring conditions up to constitutional standards.

Arizona prison officials withholding selected issues of The Nation from incarcerated subscribers

A judge found that the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry (ADCRR) systematically violates the constitutional rights of persons incarcerated in the state’s prisons by failing to provide them minimally adequate medical and mental health care.

Parsons v. Shinn was ordered to trial following a federal judge’s order rescinding an earlier settlement between the parties.

After numerous hearings showed that prisoners were still not receiving necessary medical care, the judge has imposed fines totaling $1.5 million. The Arizona Department of Corrections subcontracts its medical services to the private corporation Corizon Health.

The fact that the Department of Corrections is still grossly out of compliance with the settlement is proof that the department is profoundly broken, leaving the thousands of prisoners under its control with scant access to medical care.

PHOENIX—Alessandra Soler, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, made the following comment regarding Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone's announcement today that he plans to shut the Tent City jail facility.

TUCSON — Tucson Sector Border Patrol holds men, women, and children in freezing, overcrowded, and filthy cells for extended periods of time in violation of the U.S. Constitution, a group of legal organizations allege in a class-action lawsuit filed Monday.

PHOENIX – The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Arizona, the Prison Law Office, and co-counsel today filed a settlement agreement in their class-action suit on behalf of more than 33,000 prisoners in Arizona’s state prisons.