FLORENCE, AZ (AZFamily) — State lawmakers are demanding answers after a dangerous inmate tricked the prison system into releasing him decades before his sentence was up. You could call it a clever ...

Inmates at the Perryville prison in Goodyear are training shelter dogs to become service animals for veterans with traumatic brain injuries. The program, operated by Soldiers Best Friend, pairs ...

PHOENIX – An Arizona inmate who orchestrated a murder-for-hire plot from behind bars recently had his prison sentence extended by 20 years, authorities said. Levi Jones, 36, was awaiting trial in a ...

The Idaho Department of Correction announced on Thursday that they have transferred 120 Idaho inmates to an Arizona ...

An Arizona inmate was mistakenly released 22 years early after officials accepted fraudulent court documents. The inmate, David Cramer, was free for over two months ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wrongful death lawsuit filed against the state of Arizona alleges gross negligence in the death of an inmate who died last ...

An Arizona inmate’s lawsuit can proceed against corrections officials who confiscated his hip-hop CDs and Nation of Islam books as banned materials, a federal appeals court says. The ruling by a three ...

More than 100 incarcerated Idahoans are now residing in an Arizona correctional facility, with 200 more planned to be ...

Idaho Department of Corrections officials are calling it a short-term fix while long-term solutions are studied.

A fight among 200 inmates at an Arizona prison left several inmates and a guard injured on Thursday, NBC station KPNX and The Arizona Republic reported. The brawl occurred around 5:30 p.m. local time ...

Montana will no longer send inmates to a private prison in Arizona, opting instead to consolidate all 600 out-of-state inmates to a facility in Mississippi operated by the same company.