Arizona Department of Corrections

Gov. Doug Ducey last week signed a bill into law that’ll employ hundreds more state inmates for wildfire mitigation work. Officials hope it’ll help reduce…

Arizona prison officials started offering COVID-19 vaccinations Friday to corrections officers at the Perryville prison in Goodyear, with other prisons to…

Arizona authorities say an inmate at the state prison in Winslow is dead from an apparent suicide. Arizona Department of Corrections officials say…

Inmates in Arizona’s prisons are being offered free soap and are no longer routinely being moved between prison complexes in the latest efforts to guard…

Inmates in Arizona’s prisons have asked a judge to order the state to develop an adequate plan for confronting the new Coronavirus behind bars.Their…

An Arizona corrections officer has died after blowing the whistle last year on the dangers that her colleagues faced from the failure of cell door locks…

Maricopa County Sheriff’s officials says a detention officer has been seriously injured after being assaulted by an inmate.They say Johann Benson was…

Advocates for overhauling Arizona’s criminal justice system want to put a proposal on the November ballot that would reduce the sentences of non-dangerous…

Most of Arizona's 15 counties say their jails wouldn't be able to accommodate state inmates who could be moved from an aging state prison that Governor…

A judge has threatened a third round of contempt of court fines against the state of Arizona if it doesn’t follow through on promises in a legal…