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The woman in the leopard-print blazer and black dress sat on the bench in courtroom 701 in Maricopa County Superior Court waiting for the hearing to start. Seated at the defense table was a young man in a black-and-white jumpsuit with “SHERIFF’S INMATE” written in red on the back, his ankles and wrists shackled. The man, Stephen Luke Osborne, turned to look at the woman seated in the gallery. “I love you,” Kat Blue whispered to her son. “I love you too,” Osborne whispered back.
Osborne, 33, was arrested on Aug. 11 and had been in the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Lower Buckeye Jail ever since. Now, on the morning of Oct. 23, Osborne was in court to revisit his bond conditions. Blue was anxious. She wanted him out of jail. One worry outweighed the rest: the quality of healthcare — or lack thereof…