by Assist. Editor | Mar 25, 2025 | front page, Health, Infrastructure
With their contract with ADCRR hanging by a thread, Naphcare is scrambling to impress the Judge with their “good works”. Thornell is stuffing the pipeline full of recently graduated correctional officers, so it looks like he’s more staffed than he...
by Editor | Mar 11, 2025 | front page, Health, Infrastructure
Readers, if you’ve been watching the local news you have seen a flurry of stories about the miserable health care in AZ prisons. We’ve been writing about this for years, but the media has finally noticed….and the Court. Jensen v Thornell, the lawsuit...
by Editor | Feb 20, 2025 | front page, Health, Infrastructure, Uncategorized
(Mary’s story…Ed.) “The bone spurs in my neck punctured my spinal cord, and the MRI shows the spinal fluid leaking out into my body. The first Provider I saw, Jose Sims, told me ” there’s nothing they can do”. He was an arrogant...
by Editor | Feb 12, 2025 | front page, Health, Infrastructure, Uncategorized
“This must be part of the punishment that the DOC promises you get during your incarceration. On the outside, if your friends are in hospice, you can visit when you’re up to it and process it afterward with a martini. Here in Perryville, there is no...
by Editor | Feb 5, 2025 | front page, Health, Infrastructure
Two stories, in a huge list of similar orthopedic stories from Perryville. Patient #1 fell at the kitchen and came down hard on her knee. She received the usual dismissive treatment from medical, with no ice chrono or promise of an x-ray. Her knee was the size of a...
by Editor | Feb 4, 2025 | front page, Health, Infrastructure
Lori has extreme arthritis that affects her joints, especially the hands. Six months ago she had a reputable surgeon in a hospital reconstruct her right hand….it went well. Since then, Naphcare has had cost cutting front and center. Lori was thinking she was...
