Keyword: 'state prison system'

Keyword: state prison system

State prison panel tells Hobbs they need time, staff, …

12/26/2023

PHOENIX — Members of a special panel appointed by Gov. Katie Hobbs to look at the state prison system are telling her they can’t do the job she asked them to do: provide actual — and meaningful — oversight of the $1.1 billion operation where about 35,000 people are locked up.

Hobbs' choice to head Arizona prison system gets …

6/6/2023

PHOENIX — A Senate panel voted Tuesday to recommend confirmation of a new head of the state prison system after he assured them his agency is ready to again start executing inmates on death row.