After inmate deaths in Maricopa County jails reached new highs during former Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s last few years in office, the numbers started trending in the other direction, according to a new ...

PHOENIX - Detention officers in Maricopa County have seized more than 150 fentanyl pills from inmates from one facility in the past week, according to the county sheriff's office. In total, 260 pills ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man in custody with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is being accused of killing a fellow inmate, according to the Maricopa ...

12 overdoses have been reported over the past week at Estrella Jail in Phoenix. One of the inmates who overdosed died. MCSO say the overdoses stem from undetected drug smuggling into the jail. PHOENIX ...

PHOENIX — The Maricopa County jail system may start charging inmates a daily fee for meals. According to ABC15, Sheriff Joe Arpaio said that the estimated 8,300 inmates in county tents and jails will ...

PHOENIX — The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is trying to locate an inmate who assumed the identity of a different person in jail and was mistakenly released Thursday morning. Anthony Pena was ...

Some inmates at Maricopa County jails are going on a three-day hunger strike to protest the quality and frequency of the food they are served, according to a Phoenix activist. There have been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Five current and former law enforcement officers are running to be Maricopa County's next sheriff. Russ Skinner, appointed to ...

A man in custody with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is being accused of killing a fellow inmate, according to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office. Muhammad Toure, 26, is charged on suspicion ...