Arizona Prisons

A recently-published new survey is doing something similar to the Netflix show "Orange Is The New Black" with real-life prisoners here in the Valley.

A study is providing new insight on the traumas and experiences of incarcerated women at the Estrella Jail. The report came from a partnership between ASU and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.

If you go to jail, you probably expect to spend a whole lot of time being told what to do. For a group of inmates at the Pinal County Adult Detention Center in Florence, they got the chance to run their pod themselves. And it was all filmed for Netflix.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office says it’s reinstating striped uniforms to help keep track of inmates.

Inmates wore stripes at Maricopa County jails until shortly after Sheriff Joe Arpaio left office about 10 years ago. Now, Arpaio’s former chief deputy is bringing them back.

Arizona lawmakers passed legislation to establish independent oversight of state prisons last session. Now, they want to fund it.

Beginning Dec. 15, Arizona inmates will no longer be permitted to receive general mail. At least not in the physical form. The state is switching to a digital-only delivery system.

Court records show that a group of Arizonans accused of using fraudulent documents to get an inmate out of prison 20 years early attempted to use a similar scheme to free a second inmate.

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.