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Bill addresses release of terminally ill inmates
The Board of Executive Clemency would no longer have to seek out a governor’s signature to grant release to inmates with terminal illnesses and would generally expand the power of the board to grant medical release under a proposed bill.
Clemency advocates push for more attention, resources, additional board member
When it comes to recommendations from the Board of Executive Clemency, advocates for clemency say former Gov. Doug Ducey fell short in responding to requests for pardons and commutations.
Pastors: Protect prisoners from COVID-19 to live out the Easter value of redemption
If the Arizona Department of Corrections continues to be reactive instead of proactive in its preparations for COVID-19, there will be a killing field in the prisons. Folks sentenced to just a few years will be handed down a death sentence, not from a jury or a judge but from sheer negligence.
The Breakdown, Episode 10: Pardon me
Pardon the noise - the soothing sounds of Capitol traffic are back this week, but so are our reporters with the latest.
Pardon me? Obama’s record 1,023 commutations bypass Arizona so far
Arizona is one of three states that have not been touched by President Barack Obama’s record-setting pace of prison sentence commutations.
Brewer granted 6 clemencies in 2014, mostly to dying inmates
Gov. Jan Brewer cut three years off the sentence of a 24-year-old man convicted of manslaughter, the only prisoner she gave mercy to in 2014 who wasn’t dying.
