Arizona Prisons

Arizona has one of the highest incarceration rates in the country. And according to advocates, roughly 70% of the state’s eligible workforce faces barriers to employment because of a criminal record. To help close that gap, an Arizona nonprofit and a trade school have teamed to launch a welding program for women recently released from Perryville prison.

The state Department of Corrections is pushing back against the request for a federal judge to remove its control of the prison health care system.

While civil rights groups urge a federal judge to remove control of Arizona’s prison health care system from the state, officials argue they’ve made reasonable progress since the 2023 ruling that found care and conditions of confinement subpar.

Civil rights groups are asking a federal judge to take control of healthcare in Arizona’s prison system away from the state Department of Corrections.

The court issued an execution warrant for Aaron Brian Gunches, who was convicted in 2007 in the 2002 shooting death of Ted Price, his girlfriend’s ex-husband, near Mesa.

AHCCCS has received federal approval to give incarcerated people a much-needed boost while they transition back into their communities by offering a so-called reentry benefits package.

Calling the current system inhumane and problematic, a state lawmaker wants to give voters the chance to replace the current method of killing convicted murderers with the firing squad.

"Imprisoned Minds" is co-authored by Kevin Wright, a criminal justice professor at ASU, and Erik Maloney, who's currently serving a life sentence at a prison in Arizona.

A state prison inmate in Yuma died days after undergoing a hernia surgery earlier this year. But an autopsy shows he died from an unrelated and natural cause.

Retired federal Judge David Duncan still intends to complete his report about what he has learned about the execution process in Arizona even though Gov. Katie Hobbs fired him last month.