PHOENIX — State lawmakers are launching dueling efforts to reduce gang violence, warning gangs have become sophisticated modern-day mafias.

A Mesa woman charged in the strangulation murder of her mother in Kingman almost three years ago has entered a mandatory ...

Two Republican lawmakers are blasting Gov. Katie Hobbs for agreeing to some independent oversight of the prison system — but only after refusing to actually fund the program, ...

A prisoner is sharing in his own words how and why he carried out murders at a Tucson prison and when he gave prison officials a warning it would happen.

After stealing from a prominent Marana cattle stockyard for four years, a longtime friend of the stockyard’s owners was sentenced Tuesday to five years in federal prison and ordered to pay $3 ...

A female prison officer, who engaged in phone sex with a prisoner, has confessed to public misconduct and faces jail time.

Shawn Grell, sentenced to life for the horrific 1999 murder of his 2-year-old daughter, has died in a Tucson prison. The case shocked the state and the nation.

Wealstun Prison guard Megann Gibson, 26, had phone sex with an inmate and flooded his mom with hundreds of messages to keep the illicit tryst going, a UK court has heard.

Employees at the federal prison in Phoenix are calling on the warden and regional director to be fired. Here's why.

Arizona convicted murderer Clifton Nez Hamalowa was sentenced to life plus 10 years for killing Richard Olds, with siblings involved in crime concealment and witness intimidation.

Todd and Savannah Chrisley held a press conference in Nashville, Tennessee, after his and wife Julie's release from prison following convictions for tax evasion and bank fraud.