Tag: Roslyn Silver
The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry owes $2.65 million in attorneys fees after settling a nearly nine-year federal civil rights lawsuit over censorship of a legal magazine sent...
Federal judge lets donor disclosure law stand
There’s nothing inherently unconstitutional about ensuring Arizona voters know who is trying to influence elections here with their money, a federal judge has ruled. In a 30-page opinion, Judge Roslyn...
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Judge mulls third contempt case against Arizona for failing to improve prison health care
A judge presiding over a nearly 12-year-old lawsuit challenging the quality of health care in Arizona’s prisons is considering whether to launch a third contempt-of-court proceeding against the state for...
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Trial to begin over health care for 27K Arizona prisoners
State appeals ruling on prison health care
Arizona is appealing a withering federal court ruling that threw out a 6-year-old legal settlement that required the state to improve health care for thousands of prisoners.  Arizona corrections officials...
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Judge voids prisoner health care settlement
(Shutterstock) A U.S. district court judge has voided a six-year-old prison health care class action settlement and ordered a trial after the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry and its health...
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Pandemic cited by Arizona in bid to avoid contempt fine
State fined $1.1M over prison health care
Arizona prisons, inmate lawyers to renegotiate settlement
The Arizona Department of Corrections was sent back to the negotiating table after it failed to comply with a previous settlement requiring better health care, a judge said. U.S. District...
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Judge orders state prisons to revamp censorship policy
State prison officials have been ordered to revise their policy of what inmates can see and read. In a new order, U.S. District Court Judge Roslyn Silver directed the Department...
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Judge asks whether prison health care deal should be tossed
A federal judge who has criticized Arizona’s persistent noncompliance with a settlement requiring improvements to health care for prisoners has ordered lawyers for the state and inmates to decide whether...