Arizona's state prisons are facing charges of not making promised improvements to healthcare services for inmates that were part of a 2016 settlement.
Arizona Corrections Director David Shinn testified Tuesday in a trial concerning the medical and mental health care provided to incarcerated people and said they often have better care than people not in prison, including himself.
While the state has denied these allegations, a court-appointed expert concluded previously that understaffing, insufficient funds and privatized healthcare services prove to be barriers to improving the quality of care in Arizona's prisons. The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry has denied allegations that it was providing inadequate care, delayed or issued outright denials of care and failed to give necessary medications. Its lawyers said the prisoners can't meet key elements in proving their case — that the state was deliberately indifferent to the risk of harm to prisoners and that the health care problems occur across the state-run prison system, not just a particular prison.
Attorneys for prisoners underscored that Arizona's previous contractor for prison health care services would have faced a $5,000 monthly sanction from the state for instances of non-compliance with the settlement.
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