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Yes. In July 2025, Arizona sold a former Marana prison to Management & Training Corporation (MTC). The company operates job ...
Yes. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests in Arizona were up 72% in the first half of 2025 compared with the same period in 2024, according to an AZCIR analysis of immigration enforcement ...
Yes. From January through June 2025, Phoenix’s homicide rate was twice as high as New York City’s, according to data compiled by the Council on Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan think tank.
Blending alternative wellness offerings with events traditionally aligned with the far right, experts warn of a pathway to radicalization.
The Constitutional Sheriff and Peace Officers Association has spread its ideology across the U.S., seeking to become more mainstream in part by securing state approval for taxpayer-funded law ...
Arizona's Black and Latino students are overrepresented among those suspended for missing class, a potential civil rights violation.
A deluge of ‘sovereign citizen’ paperwork has flooded Arizona’s Pima County, a spike that parallels a national resurgence of the movement.
Advocates for people with serious mental illness call for improved conditions at the Arizona State Hospital, and more beds.
The Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act would repair decades of legal disputes and devote $5 billion to delivering Colorado River water to tribes in northeastern Arizona.
When suspensions are levied as a punishment for students whose only offense is missing class, problems can snowball.
Arizona's failure to anticipate the impact of suspensions among behavioral health providers suspected of medicare fraud put patients at risk of further harm.
AZCIR used additional criteria beyond group affiliation to define which sheriffs are part of the extremist “constitutional sheriff” movement.