"I'm kind of freaking out about how many murders there have been, and how many attacks there have been on both guards and inmates." ...

There are new calls for the Arizona governor to fund an independent oversight office for the Department of Corrections, ...

Six months after an independent prison oversight office was created in Arizona, it remains unfunded. One legislator is ...

It could cost the state's prison system nearly $252 million over five years to incarcerate adults under the terms of a proposed law that has reignited debate over Arizona's ability to control its ...

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

PHOENIX — An advocacy group alleges that a private health care company contracted by the Arizona Department of Corrections has delayed inmate care, failed to provide medication and hasn’t offered any ...

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 ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Ricky Wassenaar was already serving 16 life sentences for his role in an escape attempt and hostage standoff at the Lewis Complex prison in Buckeye in 2004. For the past 20 years, ...

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 ...

PHOENIX — Lawyers for 25,000 people incarcerated in Arizona have asked a judge to take over health care operations in state-run prisons and appoint an official to run them, saying the state is not ...

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 ...

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 ...