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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Arizona's ADCRR set new limits on inmate commissary purchases effective January 12 to address inventory issues.

Weeks after Arizona lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to create an independent oversight office to monitor its deeply troubled prison system, the new office's future is in question after its funding was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Arizona is in for a warm and pleasant weekend as temperatures soar well above normal across the state. The Phoenix area will experience dry and tranquil conditions with only a few passing high clouds ...

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 ...