Prison News | Arizona

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Education & Rehabilitation

• Arizona prisons urged to end ban on book about black men
  
  PHOENIX — Arizona has banned prisoners from reading a book that discusses the impact of the criminal justice system on black men, drawing outcry from First Amendment advocates who say the move is censorship.... [ more ]
  inquirer.net, Wednesday, May 22, 2019
  
  
• https://www.johnsoncitypress.com/Government/2019/05/21/Arizona-prisons-ban-book-on-black-men-in-the-justice-system.html
  
  PHOENIX — Arizona has banned prisoners from reading a book that discusses the impact of the criminal justice system on black men, drawing outcry from First Amendment advocates who say the move is censorship.... [ more ]
  Johnson City Press, Tuesday, May 21, 2019
  
  
• Arizona inmates help train wild horses removed from federal lands; gain real-life skills
  
  The men, felons inside the Arizona State Prison Complex-Florence, have been working since 4 a.m. to break a handful of wild horses in the latest work program for the state Department of Corrections' business arm.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Saturday, July 20, 2013
  
  

Executions, Death Row & the Death Penalty

Gangs in Prison

• Inmate, lawyer face gang, money laundering charges
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A prison inmate and his wife, who also is his attorney, have been indicted along with four others on more than 250 criminal counts, including money laundering and solicitation to commit murder, after a two-year investigation into prison gang activities, police said Friday.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Friday, October 4, 2013
  
  
• 'Armed and dangerous' inmate convicted of rape escapes jail
  
  Tucker has an association with a white supremacy group known as the Aryan Brotherhood... ... [ more ]
  FOX11AZ.com, Tuesday, April 24, 2007
  
  
• Hells Angels drive nets 14,000 diapers for needy
  
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  The Tucson Citizen, Thursday, December 14, 2006
  
  

Health & Medical Treatment

• Prison problems: Miscarriages, a baby born in a cell, inadequate services for disabilities
  
  Women miscarrying due to a lack of proper health care, a woman giving birth alone in a cell, and deaf inmates not getting interpretation services during doctor visits. ... [ more ]
  AZCentral Part of the USA Today Network, Monday, May 20, 2019
  
  
• Arizona Agrees to Fix Prison Health System
  
  (CN) - Arizona must reform its prison health care system and pay more than $5 million in attorneys' fees under a class action settlement announced Tuesday.

  The stipulation of settlement filed in Federal Court in Phoenix cancels a trial that was set to start this month in a class action against the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) by inmates at 10 state prisons.... [ more ]

  Courthouse News, Tuesday, October 14, 2014
  
  
• State urges court to review prison health ruling
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The state of Arizona has asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling nearly two months ago that concluded about 33,000 inmates could join a lawsuit protesting the quality of health care in the state's prisons.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Wednesday, July 30, 2014
  
  

Prison Classification, Placement, & Release

• Lawyers for dead inmate announce intent to file $5 million claim
  
  The family of the inmate who died of pneumonia while in custody at the Coconino County jail served a notice of $5 million claim against the county earlier this week.... [ more ]
  azdailysun.com, Sunday, July 21, 2019
  
  
• Arizona urges court not to impose more fines in inmate suit
  
  PHOENIX — The state of Arizona is urging a judge not to impose another round of contempt-of-court fines in a lawsuit over health care for prisoners after the state has been accused of failing to document its noncompliance with a settlement that requires improvements to inmate care.... [ more ]
  www.abqjournal.com, Wednesday, July 17, 2019
  
  
• Arizona Prisons Lift Ban On Book About Mass Incarceration
  
  Corrections officials in Arizona are now allowing inmates to read a book criticizing the U.S. criminal justice system after initially pulling it from prisons over "unauthorized content," a state corrections official tells NPR.... [ more ]
  Valley Public Radio Home, Friday, June 21, 2019
  
  
• Stateďż˝S Prison Costs Outstrip Colleges -- A sobering discussion on spiraling costs
  
  Arizona holds 23 percent of its prisoners in 15 private prisons, an expensive proposition, said Dianne Post, spokesperson for the Arizona Justice Alliance, a group that educates the public on the current state of prisons in Arizona....

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  Payson Roundup, Saturday, September 6, 2014
  
  
• Ariz. prison capacity either running short or carrying a surplus, depending on temporary beds
  
  PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona has either a shortfall of approximately 4,000 prison beds or a surplus of about 1,000 beds, with the difference based on whether more than 5,100 temporary beds are counted as part of the overall picture.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Tuesday, August 20, 2013
  
  

Prison Conditions & Corruption

• Arizona prison improved since 2010 inmate escape
  
  KINGMAN, Ariz. — An Arizona prison has vastly improved its security in the four years since a 2010 inmate escape that resulted in the murder of an Oklahoma couple, officials said Sunday.

  MTC, the private company operating Arizona State Prison-Kingman, has invested $1 million in improvements, the Kingman Daily Miner reported... [ more ]

  Associated Press, Sunday, June 8, 2014
  
  
• Newly hired Gila County detention officer arrested
  
  GLOBE, Ariz. (AP) - A newly hired detention officer at the Gila County Jail is accused of smuggling contraband to inmates.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Thursday, March 27, 2014
  
  

Prison Life & Culture

• Arizona prison officials won't let inmates read book that critiques the criminal justice system
  
  Arizona Corrections officials could soon face a First Amendment lawsuit if they refuse to overturn a ban on inmates' ability to read "Chokehold," a critically acclaimed critique of the American criminal-justice system and its treatment of black men.... [ more ]
  AZCentral - Part of the USA Today Network, Friday, May 17, 2019
  
  
• Year of freedom after 4 decades behind bars difficult for Louis Taylor
  
  Louis Cuen Taylor? spent most of his life living in the structured environment of prison.

  Every day for 42 years he was told when to wake up, what to wear, where to go and what to eat.... [ more ]

  Arizona Daily Star, Sunday, May 11, 2014
  
  

Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes

• Inmate escapes from federal facility in Tucson
  
  The Federal Bureau of Prison says 28-year-old Adrian Perez was discovered missing from the Federal Correctional Complex Satellite Camp about 10 p.m. Sunday.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Monday, March 31, 2014
  
  
• Corrections officer injured during attack by inmates at Winslow prison complex
  
  PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona Department of Corrections says it will seek criminal prosecution of two inmates at the state prison complex in Winslow for an attack on a corrections officer.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Wednesday, July 24, 2013
  
  
• DOC: State prison inmate dies from an apparent suicide at an off-site work location in Tucson
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Authorities say an Arizona prison inmate is dead from an apparent suicide at an off-site work location in Tucson. State Department of Corrections officials say 48-year-old Patrick Hoppes was pronounced dead around 3 p.m. ...... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Wednesday, July 17, 2013
  
  
• Inmate convicted in Phoenix's 'serial shooter' attacks dies in prison; cause of death unknown
  
  PHOENIX (AP) - A serial killer convicted of murdering six people in a shooting spree that terrorized Phoenix in 2005 and 2006 was found dead Wednesday in his death row prison cell, officials said.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Wednesday, June 19, 2013
  
  
• Authorities: Arizona prison inmate at the Lewis complex in Buckeye dies in apparent homicide
  
  PHOENIX (AP) - Authorities say an Arizona prison inmate is dead from an apparent homicide. State Department of Corrections officials say 63-year-old John Jones died Monday at the Lewis complex in Buckeye.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Monday, June 17, 2013
  
  
• 'Armed and dangerous' inmate convicted of rape escapes jail
  
  Tucker has an association with a white supremacy group known as the Aryan Brotherhood... ... [ more ]
  FOX11AZ.com, Tuesday, April 24, 2007
  
  

Suicides in Prison

• Death of Ariz. serial killer last month ruled a suicide, antidepressant meds found in system
  
  FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) - The death of a convicted Arizona serial killer whose body was discovered last month in an isolation cell was ruled a suicide Thursday by a medical examiner who said the gunman who once terrorized Phoenix had overdosed ...... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Thursday, July 11, 2013
  
  

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