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Sep 23, 2009
Corrections disciplines 16 over death of inmate in outdoor enclosure
The Arizona Department of Corrections has disciplined, dismissed or accepted resignations from 16 employees in connection with the death of a female inmate left in an outdoor enclosure and a strategy that used such enclosures as an alternative to force with prisoners, the agency's interim director said Sept. 22.
Jun 1, 2009
Arizona suspends use of outdoor cells
Arizona's prisons director has suspended the use of all outdoor holding cells while crews retrofit them to provide shade and water in the wake of an inmate's heat-related death.
