Arizona State Prison Complex-Yuma

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.