Attorneys challenging the quality of health care in Arizona’s prisons want to force the state to cover all costs in monitoring whether the state is fulfilling its promises in a 2015 settlement to improve inmate care.
The lawyers are asking a judge to remove the settlement’s $250,000 cap on the state’s annual monitoring costs.
They say they have had to pick up $1.9 million in unreimbursed monitoring costs since 2015 due to the state’s stubborn noncompliance.
The Department of Corrections declined to comment Monday on the request.
