Arizona's ADCRR set new limits on inmate commissary purchases effective January 12 to address inventory issues.

A counselor at Lewis Prison in Buckeye was arrested on Jan. 3 after an investigation into drug and contraband cellphone smuggling, according to records filed in Maricopa Superior Court. Berman Comon, ...

PHOENIX — Former Arizona Corrections Director Charles Ryan pleaded no contest Tuesday to disorderly conduct stemming from an encounter in which police say he fired a gun inside his Tempe home in early ...

PHOENIX — Former Arizona Corrections Director Charles Ryan was sentenced Friday to probation for his no-contest plea to a disorderly conduct charge stemming from a 2022 armed standoff at his Tempe ...

Three prison inmates are dead following an altercation reported at a facility in southern Arizona, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry. The deadly ...

The Arizona Department of Corrections has announced it will change the health-care provider for all state-run prisons as of March 4. AZDC has severed its contract with private medical company Wexford ...

A former prison guard has been sentenced to 15 months for smuggling cocaine as part of an undercover FBI sting. Barnum Haitshan, a former Arizona Department of Corrections officer, was one of dozens ...

BUCKEYE, AZ (AZFamily) — An Arizona corrections officer who works as a state prison counselor is accused of smuggling in drugs and cellphones for inmates and being paid up to $5,000 per trip to do so, ...