Elijah Palmer, a minimum custody risk inmate, escaped early Saturday morning from the Whetstone Unit at the Arizona State ...

PHOENIX – A West Valley inmate died Tuesday after the second recent fatal gang-related attack in an Arizona prison, authorities said. Jacob Major, 43, died at a Goodyear hospital after an attack at ...

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 ...

Arizona lawmakers questioned the state's prisons director about increased prison violence and inmate homicides in 2025. Former wardens criticized the prison system's drug-treatment program and inmate ...

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, ...