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Arizona Department of Corrections Director Charles Ryan is the target of a lawsuit that challenges the quality of health care in Arizona's prisons. Last week, lawyers representing the state's 34,000 prisoners asked for $1.6 million in additional litigation costs for their work in enforcing a settlement in the case that they say the state has repeatedly resisted. The request comes after attorneys representing inmates have already been awarded $6.1 million. (Ross D. Franklin/AP file)

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PHOENIX — Lawyers who filed a lawsuit challenging the quality of health care in Arizona's prisons are seeking $1.6 million in additional legal fees and other costs in enforcing a 2014 settlement that they say the state has repeatedly resisted.

By JACQUES BILLEAUD, Associated Press October 2, 2018