A federal judge on Friday appointed Ohio’s former prisons chief to run Arizona’s prison healthcare system, giving her the sole power to determine what the state needs to do to stop violating the ...

Former Ohio prisons Director Annette Chambers-Smith will earn $500K per year as she seeks to resolve deficiencies in care at ...

The department has indicated it plans to appeal the appointment of an outside receiver to assume control of the delivery of ...

Arizona has already paid more than $2 million in fines after being found in contempt of court in connection with the lawsuit, according to the court order A federal judge has appointed an outside ...

A federal judge rejected a request from the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry that it be allowed ...

Prison reform advocates and families of inmates are petitioning Gov. Katie Hobbs to provide $1.5 million in funding for an independent oversight committee. An advocate who has seen loved ones go ...

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 ...

A federal judge has appointed someone to oversee the state prison healthcare system for the next five years and given her ...

The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry confirmed that an evaporative cooler at Lewis Prison's Bachman Unit was under repair for four days this week.