FLORENCE — Arizona's workplace safety agency ... Safety and Health inspectors visited the prison following the fire and determined CCA violated rules requiring evacuation plans for staff ...

The Arizona Legislature provided funding ... and a federal sexual-discrimination case against an operator in Florence. Private-prison companies, such as CCA, have made campaign contributions ...

PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona is proceeding with plans to close one of its two large state-run prison complexes in Florence and transfer more than 2,000 inmates to a private facility in Eloy. The Arizona ...

PHOENIX — The process of shuttering Arizona’s oldest state prison located in Florence continues as an Eloy correctional center was selected to house up to 2,706 adult prisoners. The Arizona ...

Not just a prison town." Indeed, Florence was a town before completion of the Arizona State Prison in 1912 - just not much of one. The 1910 census recorded a population of 807, but the tiny town's ...

FLORENCE, AZ — Newly obtained court documents and police reports detail the crimes committed by two Arizona inmates who escaped prison and have been on the run for four days - and counting.

Law enforcement officials on Thursday recaptured two inmates who escaped from a state prison in Florence, Arizona, over the weekend, thanks to tips from the public. John Charpiot and David Harmon ...