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Maricopa County Jail's Prisoner Health Care Still Unconstitutional
Loaded on Oct. 27, 2016
by Matthew Clarke
Filed under:
Jail Misconduct,
Failure to Treat,
Jail Specific,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
Arizona.
With assistance from American Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project (NPP) attorneys, plaintiffs were able to fend off an attempt to terminate a 37-year-old class-action civil-rights lawsuit challenging the provision of medical and mental health services to pretrial detainees in the 8,200-bed jail system of Maricopa County, Arizona. An …
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