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Report: Prisons have security lapses
The Arizona Department of Corrections’ oversight of private prisons has improved since a deadly, July 2010 escape, but the Office of the Auditor General also found the state-run prisons have their own security problems.
Jail population a crisis level in Coconino County
Managers of the Coconino County Jail say the inmate population has reached "crisis" levels for the third time in three years.
Business groups line up against proposed Goodyear private prison
Building a private prison in Goodyear would torpedo that city’s economic development prospects and one business has already balked at moving there if it happens, business groups opposed to the prison say.
Judge refuses to immediately halt private prison bidding process
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge refused today to immediately put a stop to the bidding process for private prisons to house 5,000 inmates.
Visitors to Arizona prisons hit with $25 fee
Under a new state law, some adults who want to visit incarcerated inmates must pay the fee, with the money raised going toward maintaining 10 state-run prisons.
Cost-benefit study of prisons late, but state going ahead with 5,000 more private beds
The Department of Corrections has long been out of compliance with a law requiring the director to complete a cost-benefit analysis comparing private and state-run prisons every two years.
DOC Director Charles Ryan, who took over the job in January 2009, said he started working on his analysis a few months ago.
But House Minority Leader Chad Campbell insists that’s not [...]
Prison chief says privatizing inmate medical care would lead to massive layoffs
A major change in how the state delivers health care to its prisoners is well underway, and with it comes the question of what will happen to the current staff of doctors, nurses, lab technicians and other professionals.
Prisoner advocate sues over background-check fee
A group that advocates for prisoners’ rights went to court Monday to challenge a law that allows the Arizona Department of Corrections to set a one-time fee for conducting background checks on inmates’ visitors.
Condemned prisoners’ complaint triggers trial for ADC
For the second time in four years the Arizona Department of Corrections will be going to court to defend the way it carries out executions.
Appeals court grants new hearing in 1988 Tucson double murder
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that lower courts must consider convicted murderer Richard Harley Greenway’s claim that he was poorly represented in his trial for the 1988 murders of two women in their Tucson home.
Arizona’s death penalty procedures challenged in federal court
In the minutes just before an execution, inmates lay strapped to a table with a white sheet pulled up to their necks, but the veiled process and other procedures followed by the Arizona Department of Corrections are now being challenged in federal court.
DPS won’t search Ariz Corp Comm offices for drugs
The state Department of Public Safety has denied a request from Arizona's top utility regulator to send a drug-sniffing dog to his office.
