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Donna Leone Hamm

prison health care
Oct 1, 2024

Monitoring reports show prison health care provider NaphCare, Arizona still noncompliant after 2022 case

In 2022, Judge Roslyn Silver, who was nominated by President Bill Clinton, ruled that Arizona was violating prisoner’s rights by not providing proper care and that healthcare faults were causing […]

Mar 12, 2019

Changes to criminal code must be intelligent, informed and incremental

Sentencing reform is complex and multi-layered. It must include all stakeholders in the process. Not everyone will get what they want. Not all wrongs will be righted.

May 10, 2016

Arizona felons have steep path to restore voting rights

Since 2013, state Sen. Martin Quezada, D-Phoenix, has proposed legislation that would restore voting rights for all ex-offenders. In January, the bill died again without a hearing.

Apr 16, 2015

Bill establishing transition program for inmates was lost

Today's (April 13) story, "Winners and Losers," regarding those who gained from legislative action at this year's recently completed session and those who “lost” was telling.

Feb 5, 2014

Bill would make it easier for felons to get back right to vote

Saying that voting can help former felons reintegrate into everyday life, a state lawmaker wants to make it easier for them to get back that right.

Charles Ryan
Jun 12, 2013

Inmate advocates question claim that Arizona prisons have no solitary confinement

Raising doubts from skeptics, Department of Corrections Director Charles Ryan told a legislative committee Wednesday the department has no solitary confinement, despite keeping the maximum-security inmates in their cells alone for 22 hours a day.

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