Scottsdale police have identified the man who was shot and killed while visiting his friend’s home earlier this ...

In the heart of Maricopa County, Arizona, stands Towers Jail - a facility that was never meant to last but became a permanent fixture in the U.S. incarceration system. Originally built in 1982 as a ...

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Sencere Hayes, who is charged with the murder of Mercedes Vega, whose body was ...

Two Sebastian County Deputies were shanked by an inmate on Friday, with one admitted to the Intensive Care Unit with serious ...

"Maricopa County is still paying for its long ... removed language forbidding jail employees from holding inmates on ICE detainers unless the federal agency was unable to provide more than a ...

A pair of Cook County Jail detainees are alleging sheriff’s deputies encouraged a third inmate to tie them up and sexually assault them at knifepoint after one of them complained about forced ...

What we know: Maricopa County’s Estrella Jail in Phoenix is home to a little more than 900 female inmates. Each woman is facing different charges, and they all have different stories.

This awareness is shaping the upgrades to jail procedures and the implementation of body scanners, a move intended to protect both the staff and the inmates within Maricopa County's detention system.

A handful of inmates were lined up against the wall of a hallway ... Rice said he was not aware of any previous incidents of a K-9 overdosing on any substances at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, ...

Fentanyl continues to be a problem across the Valley and inside Maricopa County jails. We learned two full-body scanners will be installed here at the inmate intake, transfer, and release jail. It's t ...