The Arizona Department of Corrections is investigating an inmate death at the Lewis prison west of Phoenix.

Henry Diaz Jr. didn’t make excuses when he stood before Judge Robert Gottsfield Friday, just before being sentenced for a string of armed robberies in Ahwatukee Foothills and Tempe where he used a sawed-off shotgun.

Henry Diaz Jr. didn’t make excuses when he stood before Judge Robert Gottsfield Friday, just before being sentenced for a string of armed robberies in Ahwatukee Foothills and Tempe where he used a sawed-off shotgun.

BUCKEYE — Eleven inmates at an Arizona prison were injured after a fight broke out at a complex west of Phoenix Saturday afternoon, a state Department of Corrections spokesman said.

A convicted smuggler from Eloy has been sentenced to115 months in federal prison.

Two bank robbers from Queen Creek were sentenced to prison on Monday in U.S. District Court in Phoenix.

TUCSON — Plans have been in the works for nearly three years for a federal detention facility on land owned by southern Arizona's Tohono O'odham Nation.

LAKE HAVASU CITY - Wayne Bayse, 59, isn't your typical prison chaplain. Then again, the Arizona state prison in Kingman isn't your ordinary prison.

A Cave Creek man known as one of “The Untouchables” from a notorious East Coast auto theft ring was sentenced to 7.2 years of federal prison on Friday for stealing more than $400,000 in recreational vehicles and burning a car after drenching it with gasoline, according to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office.

Two brothers from Chandler were each sentenced to four years in federal prison for conspiring to sell large amounts of marijuana and money laundering.

A Mexican man was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison for pistol whipping illegal immigrants he was holding hostage in March.

SAN FRANCISCO - The man convicted of stalking and killing actress Rebecca Schaeffer in 1989 was stabbed repeatedly by another inmate in the prison where he is serving a life sentence, corrections officials said.

A Chandler man and his wife were sentenced to prison this week for a burglary spree that targeted people between the ages of 70 and 95.

A prison warden is among a dozen Arizona corrections officials who have been fired, forced to resign, suspended or reprimanded in connection with the death of a non-violent inmate killed after he was put in a cell with a convicted murderer serving a life sentence.

A Scottsdale family in grief over a relative’s murder is calling on lawmakers to extend prison sentences for inmates who commit a serious offense while incarcerated.

A jury on Wednesday convicted a 37-year-old Mesa man who, with another man, befriended a family and molested three children ranging in age from 5 to 11.

A prisoner with no record of violence was beaten and stabbed to death after Arizona Department of Corrections officials placed him in a cell with a killer serving a life sentence. William Harris, 45, who was serving 3 1/2 years at the state prison in Florence, was stabbed three times, hit repeatedly on the head and choked, according to a Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s report.