Arizona Prisons

The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry has announced a series of changes aimed at improving safety in state prisons and expanding programs for inmates preparing for release.

Just what Centerville, Utah, based Management & Training Corp. has planned for the shuttered 500-bed prison in Marana is still not known, even though the company paid Arizona $15 million for the facility.

The execution proceeded without incident, according to officials, and ADCRR Director Ryan Thornell was present.

Arizona voters are a step closer to getting to decide if those sentenced to death are executed by the current lethal injection method or will instead face a firing squad.

An inmate who died in June at the state prison in Yuma just days after undergoing hernia repair surgery succumbed from an unrelated and natural cause, according to an autopsy performed after a federal judge overseeing historically bad Arizona prisoner healthcare ordered the death review.

A new $1.5 million grant to the University of Arizona Innocence Project could help some now in prison get a chance to have their convictions thrown out.

By Howard FischerCapitol Media ServicesPHOENIX -- A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit claiming that private prisons used by the state violate…

State officials view the book as being potentially "detrimental to the safe, secure and orderly operation" of prison facilities. The book looks at how the criminal justice system affects black men.