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Arizona Department of Corrections fined By Shaley Sanders | February 25, 2021 at 7:42 PM MST - Updated February 26 at 5:49 AM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - A federal judge has fined Arizona more than $1 million for failing to improve inmate care.
On Wednesday, Feb. 24, United States District Judge Roslyn Silver found the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry in civil contempt for failing to comply with a previous court order.
“That rarely happens that a federal judge holds a state official in contempt of court and it is very, very unusual for that to happen twice in three years,” said Corene Kendrick, deputy director of the ACLU National Prison Project.