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Arizona: Lawsuit Spurs Significant Reforms for Death Row Prisoners
by Derek Gilna
A federal lawsuit that settled in March 2017 resulted in the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) drastically improving conditions of confinement for death row prisoners. Pursuant to the settlement, most of the state’s 120 condemned prisoners were moved from solitary confinement in the Browning Unit at the ...
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