Medical and mental health care in Arizona prisons is so bad, it violates the 8th amendment of the US Constitution which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, a federal court has ruled.
A judge ruled Arizona has been violating the constitutional rights of incarcerated people in state-run prisons by providing them with inadequate medical and mental health care, saying the state has known about the problem for years but refused to correct its failures.
A federal judge has ruled Arizona has been violating the constitutional rights of incarcerated people in state-run prisons by providing them with inadequate
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