Ricky Wassenaar pleads not guilty to three Tucson prison murders despite confessing to media he killed sex offenders ...

Elijah Palmer, a minimum custody risk inmate, escaped early Saturday morning from the Whetstone Unit at the Arizona State ...

Lawmakers in Arizona prioritize funding for prison oversight and criminal justice reform, with a focus on improving ...

A man died in a Yuma prison complex from a physical altercation, the Department of Corrections said.

PHOENIX – A West Valley inmate died Tuesday after the second recent fatal gang-related attack in an Arizona prison, authorities said. Jacob Major, 43, died at a Goodyear hospital after an attack at ...

PHOENIX — Six months after a bill that created an independent prison oversight office was signed into law, the office remains unfunded, and one state lawmaker is working to fix that. Republican state ...

'They need help, and if they are not given that help by an outside agency or group or oversight committee, then it's going to be hard to really tell folks what's underneath that bedding' PHOENIX — ...

The Arizona Department of Corrections has fired 13 people involved in two separate inmate suicides for not doing their jobs after an investigation into the deaths led to damning evidence, Fox 10 ...

Possession of nitrous oxide in Arizona would be a felony punishable by 18 months in state prison under a bill from Rep. Julie ...

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 ...

BUCKEYE, AZ (AZFamily) — An Arizona inmate has died after he was attacked at a West Valley prison last weekend. Major’s death has been ruled a homicide and is being investigated by ADCRR’s Office of ...