Arizona State Prison Complex-Yuma

After 20 years of providing trade certificates to incarcerated students at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Yuma, Arizona Western College is expanding its commitment to higher education by making an associate degree possible for incarcerated individuals.

An inmate at an Arizona state prison in San Luis died after an apparent assault by other prisoners, state corrections officials said.

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.

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.