Arizona Prison Watch: ASPC-EYMAN Deaths In Custody: Timothy Ben, Suicide.

PARSONS v RYAN is a certified CLASS ACTION!

As many of you know, under the current administration of Governor Jan Brewer the suicide and homicide rates among state prisoners doubled almost immediately, and has persisted over the course of the past four years, on the watch of Arizona Department of Corrections' Director Charles Ryan. On March 6, 2013, "Parsons v Ryan" , the civil rights lawsuit filed last year by the ACLU and Prison Law Office, among others, against Ryan and AZ DOC Health Services Director Richard Pratt on behalf of 14 state prisoners was certified as a CLASS ACTION!!!! That means every prisoner in the state is now a litigant.

Thank you not only to all the legal staff who brought it this far, but also to Wendy Halloran, KPNX, and the families who have survived the horrors of prison violence in this state with a resolve to make sure that the gross indifference to human life at the AZ DOC kills no more

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

ASPC-EYMAN Deaths In Custody: Timothy Ben, Suicide.

If anyone has any information about this suicide, please contact me at arizonaprisonwatch@gmail.com . Condolences to Timothy's loved ones. Thoughts also to the survivors of his victim, as such incidents often bring issues up for them as well.

Arizona Prison Watch

Established: July 18, 2009
Editor: Peggy Plews

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This site is to offer information and critical analysis of the prison industrial complex in Arizona. Prison abolitionism is an articulation of a vision of racial and economic justice we share with many others, not an apology. I'm not here to make prisons safer or better, per se -there are NO good prisons. I just can't say no to anyone who asks for help making it through there alive along the way, so please contact me if you have a loved one inside needing help.

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