Arizona Prisons

The Arizona Supreme Court has issued an execution warrant for Leroy Dean McGill.

The state Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry late last week announced it planned to appeal a judge’s ruling that appointed a receiver to oversee Arizona’s prison health care system.

The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry is pushing back after a federal judge seized control of health care in the state’s prisons.

Grijalva, local leaders and a few dozen protesters gathered outside the gated-off Marana Prison complex – an old state prison sold to the for-profit Management & Training Corporation last year for $15 million.

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.

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.