Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone ... which is next to the Estrella Jail facility, as a show of solidarity with inmates, some of whom indicated they would stage a three-day food strike.

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 ...

Deputies say inmates are smuggling drugs into the jail by hiding them inside their bodies, making it nearly impossible to detect. The Maricopa County jail system has the fourth-largest inmate ...

Most of those 152 cases come from arrests that result in a booking at the Maricopa County jail. Part of the booking routine involves an interview at a desk marked with the number “7.” ...

One overdose in a week is extremely high,” said Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Joaquin Enriquez. The first incident happened on Feb. 6 when eight inmates overdosed. They were taken to ...