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Stabbing Renews Questions About Patient Safety, Oversight At Arizona State Hospital

Concerns about oversight at Arizona’s state-run psychiatric hospital are re-emerging less than four years after a federal investigation found alarming deficiencies. The hospital provides court-ordered treatment for people with serious mental illnesses.

In 2015, amid reports of abuse and misconduct, Gov. Doug Ducey replaced those in charge of the hospital and ordered a probe into why some incidents went unreported. Now a lawsuit is raising new questions about safety at the facility.


Will Stone was a senior field correspondent at KJZZ from 2015 to 2019.