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Monitoring reports show prison health care provider NaphCare, Arizona still noncompliant after 2022 case
In 2022, Judge Roslyn Silver, who was nominated by President Bill Clinton, ruled that Arizona was violating prisoner’s rights by not providing proper care and that healthcare faults were causing […]
Inmate stabbed Derek Chauvin 22 times, charged with attempted murder, prosecutors say
An incarcerated former gang member and FBI informant was charged Friday with attempted murder in the stabbing last week of ex-Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin at a federal prison in Tucson.
Derek Chauvin’s family has received no updates after Tucson prison stabbing, attorney says
An attorney for Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, said Saturday that Chauvin's family has been kept in the dark by federal prison officials after he was stabbed in a Tucson prison.
Former Arizona Corrections director pleads no contest in armed standoff with officers at his home
Former Arizona Corrections Director Charles Ryan pleaded no contest Tuesday to disorderly conduct stemming from an encounter in which police say he fired a gun inside his Tempe home in early 2022 and pointed a firearm at two officers during a three-hour standoff.
Capitol rioter plans 2024 run as a Libertarian candidate in Arizona’s 8th congressional district
Jacob Chansley, the spear-carrying rioter whose horned fur hat, bare chest and face paint made him one of the more recognizable figures in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, apparently aspires to be a member of Congress.
Prison system will boost spending, medical staffing but puts more strain on state budget
Arizona’s prison system will boost spending and medical staffing for prison healthcare by more than a third as it works to meet a federal judge's orders that it vastly improve treatment of the nearly 25,000 prisoners in state-run prisons, but the move puts added pressure on a state budget that is already deep in the red.
Corrections seeks funds to phase out inmate fees
The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry requested funding in the next fiscal year to start phasing out the use of fees on deposits to inmate accounts and visitor background checks to supplement the department’s building renewal fund.
My right to vote: restoring the voice of the reformed
Governor Hobbs’ recent push to restore voting rights in Arizona struck me profoundly—not as a mere headline in the morning paper, but as an example of hope that the world I re-entered after 15 years of incarceration might finally recognize me as a person, not just a past mistake. Yet, as hopeful as I am, I am equally troubled by the reality that for too long, individuals with criminal historie[...]
Court rules lawmakers can shield bar owners, bartenders from liability when intoxicated customers cause deadly accident
State lawmakers are free to shield bar owners and bartenders from liability when customers they serve get intoxicated then go out, get in their car, and kill someone else, the Arizona Supreme Court has ruled.
‘Tentative’ settlement in wrongful death lawsuit over man’s death in prison reached
Current and former Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry heads and prison health care provider Centurion reached a “tentative” settlement in a wrongful death suit involving claims of inadequate mental health care.
A misused narrative: the real two-tiered justice system
There's been a disquieting narrative circulating in our political sphere. It's the claim that we live under a two-tiered justice system, but how it is framed isn’t accurate. This talking point, oft-repeated by Republican politicians and pundits, uses the perceived differences between the legal experiences of former President Donald Trump and the son of current President Joe Biden as evidence of [...]
Texas man who threatened poll workers and Arizona officials is sentenced to 3 1/2 years
A Texas man who advocated for a mass shooting of poll workers and threatened two Arizona officials and their children has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in federal prison, prosecutors said Friday.
