Arizona’s prison health care system placed under sweeping federal control after judge finds ongoing dangerous failures.

The order by U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver cites failures, including preventable deaths and illegitimate “refusals” of ...

A U.S. judge has ordered a takeover of the health care operations in Arizona. The decision comes after a 2022 verdict that concluded Arizona had violated prisoners' rights with inadequate health care.

PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a takeover of health care operations in Arizona’s prisons and will appoint an official to run the system after years of complaints about poor medical and ...

Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, pushed back against a judge’s decision to provide federal oversight of ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Ricky Wassenaar was already serving 16 life sentences for his role in an escape attempt and hostage standoff at the Lewis Complex prison in Buckeye in 2004. For the past 20 years, ...

The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry is deploying 1,300 body-worn cameras to state prisons to increase transparency and improve safety for staff and inmates. Since the ...

PHOENIX — A federal judge has ordered a takeover of health care operations in Arizona’s prisons and will appoint an official to run the system after years of complaints about poor medical and mental ...

FILE - A sign points in the direction of the Arizona State Prison in Florence, Ariz., March 19, 2025. PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a takeover of health care operations in Arizona’s ...