Arizona Prisons

In an 83-page order, Judge Roslyn Silver detailed complaints that go back 14 years about inadequate physical and mental health care at the 10 prison complexes across the state. That included a history of agreements to do better, injunctions and even multimillion dollar fines.

A federal judge has ordered a take-over of health care operations in Arizona’s prisons and will appoint an official to run the system after years of complaints about poor medical and mental health care.

Republican lawmakers on a Senate committee advanced a pair of bills that would give inmates a new option to choose for their method of execution, death by firing squad.

Eleven individuals wrongly convicted of crimes have applied for millions of dollars in compensation from Arizona, swamping a state fund that has only $3 million.

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.