Thousands of inmates at two California prisons may be removed from their current facility to protect them from Valley Fever.

Some new technology is allowing the Pinal County Sheriff's Office to offer inmates visits with their family around the world.

An Arizona prison complex remains locked down Monday morning, after a fight early Sunday involving about 400 inmates.

Seven Arizona inmates have been hospitalized with suspected botulism poisoning.

The Hopi tribe will be one of the first Native American nations to increase criminal sentences under a 2010 law. 

The Arizona Department of Corrections is expected to award a prison contract this week to a private out-of-state company, with the goal of producing 1,000 new medium-security inmate beds. 

Betty Smithey, 69, the nation’s longest-serving female inmate, was released from an Arizona prison Monday. 

One of the inmates who escaped a private prison near Kingman is set to go before the state Court of Appeals. 

A criminologist questions the conclusions reached by a study done for the Arizona Prosecuting Attorneys Advisory Council.  It found Arizona sentencing laws are preventing crime and saving money.  But a law professor at the University of California-Berkeley says the data doesn’t necessarily support that conclusion.