Arizona’s Governor Doug Ducey, like many politicians, is a big proponent of running government “like a business.” This resonates with many voters, who mistakenly think that the cutthroat winners-and-losers paradigm of the free market somehow benefits them (as they work three part-time jobs with no healthcare and send […]
Today the first step in ameliorating the horrific health care and poor conditions in Arizona prisons was taken when the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) settled with the ACLU of Arizona in a historic legal case, Parsons v. Ryan. This settlement is a win for Arizona prisoners and the […]
As US Senate leaders met on Tuesday, February 25, 2014 to hear testimony on the grave costs of solitary confinement in US prisons, Arizona finds itself the only state in the country with plans to build new maximum-security prison beds. The construction of these 500 new max beds […]