Arizona Prisons

Alexis Klemm, a Ph.D. student in criminology at Arizona State University, says the Inside-Out Prison Exchange program changed her life.

Oftentimes, Native American communities lack re-entry support after incarceration. Some Arizona organizations are aiming to fill this gap.

The new Arizona Sex Offender Management Board appointed a leader earlier this month. And the board is still working to formally establish its purpose and mission statement.

The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office says the fire broke out Friday morning and was caused by a malfunctioning door motor in one of the facility’s loading areas.

The state of Arizona is scheduled to execute Richard Djerf on Friday by lethal injection for his vengeful killing of a co-worker’s four family members in the 1990s. Djerf has apologized for the pain he’s caused and not tried to escape the death penalty.

Beth Schwartzapfel is an investigative reporter covering the criminal justice system with The Marshall Project. She joined The Show to get a sense of the big picture, and how prison health care works — and doesn’t — around the country.

Michael Kiefer, a longtime investigative journalist in Arizona, has been covering Ricky Wassenaar since the early 2000s. Kiefer published a lengthy profile of Wassenaar earlier this year, and joined The Show to discuss why he considers Wassenaar such a compelling subject.

Arizona prison officials are making changes after admitting they wrongfully released prisoner David Cramer two decades early as a result of fraudulent court documents filed by his family. But Cramer’s daughters continue to deny they did anything wrong, arguing his release was legal.

Lawyers representing inmates housed in Arizona’s prisons are asking a judge to appoint a receiver to take over the prison healthcare system.

The State Bar of Arizona filed a lawsuit against family members of the Arizona inmate who prison officials wrongly released from custody earlier this year, accusing them of illegally acting as attorneys.