Criminal justice

Violence erupted among prisoners at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Eyman late last month. Multiple people were injured, and Arizona Correctional Peace Officers Association President Carlos Garcia called it a “full-blown riot.”

The Navajo Nation Department of Criminal Investigations does not have an on-site medical examiner, forcing criminal investigators to take on duties they are not properly trained for and slowing down murdered and missing Indigenous persons investigations.

Arizona ranks ninth in the U.S. for number of incarcerated women. Most are moms, and many have histories of drug addiction, mental illness and physical or sexual abuse. And when it's time to come home — and many will — the work to repair those bonds can feel impossible without support.

In January of 2018, University of Arizona professor Scott Warren was volunteering in the Southern Arizona desert with humanitarian aid group No More Deaths.

Jeffrey Epstein’s famous island and his New York townhouse have been the subject of a lot of scrutiny as his crimes have become clear. But, he also owned a sprawling New Mexico ranch that was roughly the size of eleven Central Parks.

State law requires that prosecutors charge 15-, 16- and 17-year-olds as adults if they’re accused of certain violent crimes. In Maricopa County, some of those young people are sent to a therapeutic treatment court run by the judicial branch.

The scam instructs people to settle unpaid fines and fees with the traffic division. Luke Emerson, the civil department administrator at Maricopa County Superior Court, says the court does not have a traffic division.

On Tuesday, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs announced a new collaboration that could help Arizonans with criminal records.

It all began late one summer night in 2022 when a man was looking around Kris Johnson’s front door. He went outside with his wife’s gun and saw flood lights from two vehicles blocking the entrance to his neighborhood and fired what he calls a warning shot in the air.

For over 15 years, a local playwright researched the life of a Scottsdale-based con woman turned advocate for criminal-justice reform. But the new one-woman-show “STUNG!”, opening Thursday, promises to reveal hidden truths about the late Sue Ellen Allen.