Attorneys allege mentally ill inmates in Arizona prisons are kept in isolation due to staff threats and violence, violating court orders.

Inmates at the Arizona Department of Corrections face challenges with broken tablets, hindering access to medical care, communication and legal resources.

Kimbrough and 12 other women inmates took part in the new rehabilitation initiative at Perryville prison. The Department of Corrections collaborated with The Twinning Project and the Phoenix Mercury ...

A federal judge ruled in 2022 that "no legitimate humane system would operate" like Arizona's prison health care system.

It was hardly a whodunnit: Ricky Wassenaar killed three other prisoners at a state prison in Tucson in April, and he claimed to have killed a fourth last November. He had reportedly told prison ...

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 ...

Inmates at the Perryville prison in Goodyear are training shelter dogs to become service animals for veterans with traumatic brain injuries. The program, operated by Soldiers Best Friend, pairs ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) —Family members of inmates, and State Senator Kevin Payne, want answers after three prisoners were murdered and others have been beaten behind bars. Whistleblowers have been coming ...

Arizona will use federal funds to provide more job training for inmates in a plan to reduce recidivism — and to cut down on violence behind bars, says the state’s prison chief. Gov. Katie Hobbs, in ...

The New Mexico Corrections Department has moved its most prolific jailhouse lawyer to Arizona. Bryce Franklin, 35, serving a life sentence for a 2012 slaying, says his transfer from the Penitentiary ...