Prisons

Savannah Sandoval of Camp Verde will serve two years in prison for embezzling more than $670,000 from the Yavapai-Apache Nation. She was also ordered to pay the tribe more than $650,000 in restitution.

Tens of thousands of books are being banned or restricted by U.S. prisons. That’s according to a new report from PEN America, a literary and free expression organization. The list includes everything from self-help books to celebrity memoirs.

A Yavapai County judge sentenced 59-year-old Jeffrey John Thomas to 20 years in prison Thursday for shooting a Cottonwood police officer in 2020.

A federal judge who previously concluded Arizona was providing inadequate medical and mental health care to prisoners said she will give the state three months to ensure it has enough health care professionals to meet constitutional standards.

Officials will begin assessing security protocols at federal prison camps across the U.S. after an inmate obtained a gun and tried to shoot a visitor in the head at a prison camp in Arizona.

An Arizona-based weapons and technology company has signed a contract with the Ohio prison system to provide more than 5,000 body cameras for the state’s prisons and adult parole authority offices.

The U.S. government has set an execution date for the only Native American on federal death row. Lezmond Mitchell is scheduled to be put to death in late…

The number of jail inmates in metro Phoenix testing positive for the coronavirus has surpassed the total among state prisoners. Officials say 290 of…

The number of inmates in Arizona’s prisons who have tested positive for the coronavirus has reached 121, twice as many as earlier this week. Three prisons…

Advocates for inmates say they are worried they could run out of time to persuade Governor Doug Ducey to avoid a larger Coronavirus outbreak by releasing…