As a result, the Arizona Department of Corrections is required by law to move inmates who are on what are colloquially called "heat meds" to an area where the temperature is under 85 degrees if ...

The brainchild of Attorney General James Uthmeier and dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," the prison, Uthmeier said, would be built ...

PHOENIX — In the waiting room of Maricopa County’s Tent City Jail, a weathered screen flashes red, green and yellow words with a euphoric fireworks effect worthy of an early 2000s Word document.

Tent City, the infamous outdoor jail in Arizona where inmates wore pink underwear and shuffled around in chain gangs, will close, officials announced Tuesday. Joe Arpaio, the former top cop in ...

An Arizona man connected to Samuel Bateman, the self-proclaimed leader of a religious sect near the Arizona-Utah border, has been sentenced to decades in prison. Torrance Bistline, 36, was ...

Ricky Wassenaar, serving 16 life sentences in Arizona, is accused of killing three inmates over two days. Authorities are investigating, raising concerns about prison safety and management.

BUCKEYE, AZ (AZFamily) — An Arizona corrections officer who works as a state prison counselor is accused of smuggling in drugs and cellphones for inmates and being paid up to $5,000 per trip to ...

A 36-year-old Arizona man has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for illegally owning guns and for filming himself torturing and killing pigeons, some by burning their eyes with a torch ...

Arizona inmate Ricky Wassenaar, currently serving 16 life sentences, is now being accused of killing three inmates. US deploying B-2 bombers to Guam as Trump weighs possible response to Israel's ...

Arizona wants to lease the closed Marana prison site to the feds or a private contractor for $1 a year so it can be used as an immigration gulag.

An Arizona murderer was sentenced to life plus 10 years in prison on May 27 after killing a second person only 16 days after he was released in 2020, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office ...

An Arizona prisoner serving 16 life sentences killed three other inmates at a state prison in Tucson, according to officials. Ricky Wassenaar is accused of killing Saul Alvarez, Thorne Harnage and ...