Arizona had asked the courts to delay the takeover while it appealed that decision and the appointment of former Ohio ...

The Tennessee prisons official who oversaw the failed execution of Christa Pike Sept. 30 has been criticized over his track ...

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Arizona corrections officials’ last-ditch attempt to delay a court-ordered takeover of the ...

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Arizona state prison system's health care services to be put under the control of a court-appointed receiver after finding it was still subjecting incarcerated ...

The Tennessee prisons chief overseeing the botched execution of Christa Pike on Sept. 30 was previously accused of ...

A court-appointed official will take over Arizona’s prison healthcare system on Oct. 19 The change follows a long-running lawsuit alleging inferior healthcare in the system Advocates hope the takeover ...

PHOENIX — 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 mental ...

The Supreme Court just cleared the way for a federal receiver to take over healthcare for 25,000 Arizona inmates.

Arizona officials are requesting U.S. Supreme Court intervention to block a court-appointed receiver from taking over the state's prison health system until they can challenge the trial judge's ...

Arizona prison officials attribute a recent increase in inmate deaths to gang-related violence. A lawmaker has raised concerns about inmate-security designations and a lack of transparency from the ...

PHOENIX — An advocacy group alleges that a private health care company contracted by the Arizona Department of Corrections has delayed inmate care, failed to provide medication and hasn’t offered any ...

Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada resigned, days after Christa Pike survived lethal injection.