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Abstract: 

As the formerly incarcerated Executive Director of Arizonans for Accountability and Transparency in Corrections (ATAC) who worked as a paralegal during his 15-year sentence, John Fabricius is intimately familiar with the legal system. His assessment of the standard toward mental health and other civil rights issues within Arizona’s Department of Corrections (ADOC) is “deny, deny, deny.” And delay, delay, delay. Fabricius rates the ADOC mental health care system “so far in the basement it can’t be measured.” He attributes privatization’s financial focus to the ongoing problems he saw. At a per diem rate of $16 per inmate, the contracted provider gets money just by being there. “If I ask for treatment, it comes out of that. The incentive is upside down.”

Keywords: Parsons v. Shinn

Affiliations:  1: Associate Editor.