Maricopa County Sheriff Jerry Sheridan says improvements that would be funded through the passage of Prop 409 are needed to ...

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is now using new body scanners at its jails to prevent inmates from smuggling in drugs, weapons, and other contraband. Since the scanners were installed, they have ...

Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell called Oct. 17 "a day of final justice" for the victims of Richard Djerf, and also ...

Jason Knutti was incarcerated at Maricopa County jail in Phoenix ... noting that most jail and prison employees do want to mitigate suicide among inmates. They just don’t have the tools to do so, and ...

The court of appeals, en banc, reversed a judgment of the district court. The court held that a non-emergency cross-gender jailhouse strip search of a male pretrial detainee’s genital area by a female ...

PHOENIX -- The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors wants County Schools Superintendent Sandra Dowling to face court action for refusing to approve a transfer of state money to pay for the education ...

A paralegal was arrested after being accused of attempting to smuggle drugs into the Fourth Avenue Jail, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in a news release. Christopher Byers tried to ...