There are new calls for the Arizona governor to fund an independent oversight office for the Department of Corrections, ...

Six months after an independent prison oversight office was created in Arizona, it remains unfunded. One legislator is ...

Visitations at many of Arizona's prisons are closed, while other limitations are in place due to an uptick in inmate violence at several locations. On Friday, officials with the Arizona Department of ...

A video circulating on social media shows inmates in an Arizona prison getting violent toward another inmate on May 14. The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry said in a ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Ricky Wassenaar was already serving 16 life sentences for his role in an escape attempt and hostage standoff at the Lewis Complex prison in Buckeye in 2004. For the past 20 years, ...

Several Arizona state prison units will be on lockdown through Easter Sunday, April 20, due to security concerns. While family visitations are suspended, attorney and court-ordered visits will still ...

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes signed on in support of federal legislation that would allow states to use cell phone jamming systems in prisons. The legislation aims to combat crimes orchestrated ...

In April of this year Amnesty International issued a scathing indictment of the Arizona prison system, stating that some inmates are being housed under conditions constituting "cruel, inhuman or ...

PHOENIX — An Arizona corrections department whistleblower, who leaked videos exposing broken cell locks inside a state prison, died on Sunday night. Gabriela Contreras was 31 years old. A Goodyear ...

PHOENIX — There’s nothing wrong with the system used to classify the security risk of Arizona prison inmates, even if it did result in one prisoner being able to kill three fellow inmates at the ...

A prison sentence should not mean people lose fundamental human rights such as access to health care or humane conditions of confinement. Yet in Arizona prisons, despite a settlement promising to ...