John Dacey worked for 12 years at legal aid and public interest firms during 1978-1990 where he handled class actions and other cases for the poor and people with disabilities in matters concerning poverty and disability programs, particularly Medicaid, and jail conditions. While at a private law firm from 1990 to August, 2018, John represented businesses, particularly non-profits, that provide medical, behavioral health and developmental disability services. His work includes trials in state, federal, and tribal courts. John served as a state court judge pro tem and a federal court-appointed mediator to mediate inmate lawsuits over medical care and religious freedoms. For years John has been building a litigation challenge to the constitutionality of private for-profit prisons. John and Phoenix lawyer Robert Beckett founded Abolish Private Prisons, a 501(c)(3) Arizona nonprofit corporation, in 2015. See www.abolishprivateprisons.org.
Listed skills include Trial Practice, Administrative Law, Health Care Law, Civil Litigation, and 20 others.