Criminal justice reform advocates are still hopeful the office can secure outside funding and bring much-needed transparency to Arizona's prisons.

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Two Republican lawmakers are blasting Gov. Katie Hobbs for agreeing to some independent oversight of the prison system — but only after refusing to actually fund the program, ...

A new office, signed into law by Gov. Katie Hobbs, aims to bring reform and transparency to Arizona's prison system but is already facing funding challenges.

A new Arizona law is supposed to establish an independent office to provide oversight of state prisons, but lawmakers didn’t ...

Since 2000, Arizona's property crime rate has dropped 44 percent and the violent crime rate is down 12 percent, but the state's prison population has increased 60 percent.

A 73-year-old man from Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced to four years in prison after traveling to Washington to meet with what ...

FLORENCE — An Arizona prison inmate has died and it appears to be a suicide, authorities say.

Residents still shaken a day after federal authorities march through Los Angeles' MacArthur Park Anne Hathaway ‘Broke Down' ...

Bryan Kohberger is likely to end up serving his sentence at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution, but there is also a ...

In a great big land of freedom, at a time we really need ‘em/They don’t make ‘em like my daddy anymore.” – Loretta Lynn ...