by Editor | Feb 4, 2022 | Food, front page, Infrastructure
The Keefe/Trinity Corp has found yet another way to scalp inmates of their precious few dollars. Not happy with a complete monopoly on food that inmates have no choice but to consume, but they want MORE money for their “restaurant meals”. Billed as...
by Editor | Feb 4, 2022 | front page, Infrastructure
The Governor is asking for more than $1.5 BILLION for Arizona’s prisons, and the final request will be even more than that, because it does not factor in prison health care, running more than $200 Million annually. Big-ticket infrastructure items include $42...
by Editor | Feb 4, 2022 | front page, Infrastructure
The man who made so many women miserable in Perryville for 10 long years, is in legal trouble himself. The former Director of the AZDOC was drinking heavily the night he discharged a pistol in his bathroom. Ryan’s wife told police her husband drank half a large...
by Editor | Feb 4, 2022 | front page, Infrastructure
(Arizona’s Republic star reporter, Jimmy Jenkins, has kept up on this story.) When most folks point a gun at police, they’re either shot or booked in jail. That’s not what happens when you’re the former Department of Corrections...
by Editor | Jan 14, 2022 | front page, Infrastructure, Inmate Stories
We received so many emails and letters from Lumley Unit, we’re going to split it up into short, individual, stories. #1. “I thought this new dude, Deputy Warden Bendel, would make his draconian rules temporary. Rules like being escorted everywhere by a...
by Editor | Dec 28, 2021 | front page, Health, Infrastructure
(For gavel to gavel coverage, see Jimmy Jenkins reporting for the Arizona Republic.) Psychologists, wardens, medical workers, and the prisoners themselves, testified for a month in this health care trial. On the last day of the trial, the court heard from...