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Judge orders Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry to face trial In a scathing rebuke of the Arizona Department of Corrections, a federal judge has ordered that the state agency will face trial for repeatedly violating a settlement agreement in a long-standing lawsuit over prison healthcare. and last updated 2021-07-21 21:33:17-04 PHOENIX — In a scathing rebuke of the Arizona Department of Corrections, a federal judge has ordered that the state agency will face trial for repeatedly violating a settlement agreement in a long-standing lawsuit over prison healthcare....

Citing "pervasive material breaches" of Arizona's prison health care class action settlement, U.S. District Court Judge Roslyn Silver rescinded the settlement and ordered the Department of Corrections and prisoner attorneys to prepare for a trial in an order issued on Friday. The Parsons v. Ryan settlement was certified more than 6 years ago in 2015. The state agreed to a set of performance benchmarks that were created to raise the standard of health care in the 10 state-run prisons. On Friday, Judge Silver issued an order setting that agreement aside, saying the Department of Corrections and...

Sentencing Law and Policy Federal Sentencing Reporter issue considers "After Trump: The Future of the President’s Pardon Power" It strikes me as a great bit of great timing, as we head into a weekend celebrating our great nation's declaration of independence from a monarchy, that the new issue of the Federal Sentencing Reporter focused on the pardon power in the US Constitution is just now available online.  It is often said that the presidential pardon authority in Article II section 2 of the Constitution is the most "kingly" power given to our chief executive, and former Prez Donald Tru...

Hunger strikers were subjected to involuntary and invasive medical procedures, placed in solitary confinement and experienced retaliatory deportations

Hunger strikers were subjected to involuntary and invasive medical procedures, placed in solitary confinement and experienced retaliatory deportations