Judge hands Ohio’s former prisons chief sweeping control over Arizona prison healthcare

By: Jim Small

Outlets: Arizona Mirror

Published: July 18, 2026

Words: 1,178

Last Updated: 1 day, 1 hour ago

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A federal judge on Friday appointed Ohio’s former prisons chief to run Arizona’s prison healthcare system, giving her the sole power to determine what the state needs to do to stop violating the constitutional rights of inmates with substandard medical care — and she set the stage for nullifying two state laws that experts have said make it impossible to do that.

Although the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry and the plaintiffs in …

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