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U.S. Judge Orders Arpaio to Improve Jails

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

October 24, 2008 U.S. Judge Orders Arizona Sheriff to Improve Jails By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD NY Times Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., who has built a national reputation with his get-tough tactics, and county health officials have violated the Constitution by depriving jail inmates of adequate medical screening and care, feeding them unhealthy food and housing them in unsanitary conditions, a federal judge has ruled. Sheriff Arpaio, whose jurisdiction over the Phoenix metropolitan area includes one of the country?s largest jail systems, must make a number of changes under an order issued Wednesday by Judge Neil V. Wake of Federal District Court in Phoenix. Judge Wake said that disciplinary practices against mentally ill inmates had caused ?needless suffering and deterioration? and that the jails must ensure they receive prescription medication...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 25, 2008 (boomark / email).