Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Jails
One of the largest jail systems in the country — Lower Buckeye, 4th Avenue, Estrella and the Towers — with its deaths in custody and conditions, Correctional Health Services, the Melendres v. Arpaio court monitor and its costs, and the legacy of Tent City.
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- Man who threw fire bombs at MCSO jail says he didn't want to hurt anyone
- Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey scraps plan for Tent City re-entry center
- Vacant Maricopa County Jail To House County Attorneys
- Proposal would move reentry center to Tent City
- MCSO: Jail officer arrested for sex with inmate
- Former Madison Street Jail gets new life, as Maricopa County Attorney's Office
- MCSO: Woman stabbed several times in Guadalupe dies, suspect in custody
- After More Than 20 Years, Joe Arpaio’s Inhumane Tent City Jail Has Shuttered
- MCSO to change to all-orange inmate uniforms to save taxpayer money
- MCSO jail inmates will wear orange, trading out stripes
- Nearly two dozen inmates go on hunger strike in Maricopa County jails
- Penzone says Maricopa County jail meals are sufficient, offers a taste to media
- Some Maricopa County inmates going on hunger strike to protest poor food, activist says
- 4th Avenue Jail placed on temporary lockdown after bomb threat
- Who Is Paul Penzone? The Sheriff Is Turning Joe Arpaio's Tent City Into A Rehab For Opioid Addicts
- Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Infamous 'Tent City Jail' Closes
- Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Infamous 'Tent City Jail' Closes : The Two-Way
- Last Inmates Leave Tent City, a Remnant of Joe Arpaio (Published 2017)
- Maricopa County's Infamous Tent City Jail Officially Closes
- Arizona's 'Tent City' jail officially shuts down
- Arizona’s infamous ‘tent city’ jail officially shut down
- Maricopa County's Tent City jail officially shut down
- Maricopa County Tent City Finally Closed: Last Inmates Transferred Out
- Sheriff: Maricopa County jail officer badly beaten by inmate
- MCSO: Inmate beat jail officer, used stun gun on him
- Inside Joe Arpaio’s Tent City
- Perspective | The year I spent in Joe Arpaio’s tent jail was hell. He should never walk free.
- Trump pardons controversial sheriff, Joe Arpaio, convicted of criminal contempt over racial profiling
- Donald Trump pardons Joe Arpaio, former sheriff convicted in racial profiling case
- Arizona's 'concentration camp': why was Tent City kept open for 24 years?
- Former MCSO detention officers gets 1 year in prison for sexual conduct with inmate
- Throwback: Glen Campbell performs in Tent City 2004
- Man suspected of throwing firebombs at Maricopa County jail
- MCSO: Man threw Molotov cocktails at 4th Avenue Jail
- Ex-Cardinals receiver Michael Floyd reports to Maricopa County jail
- Arizona is housing prisoners in a tent city and it’s 117 degrees
- Maricopa County's Tent City still housing 350 inmates during heat wave
- Privatizing Mesa jail to cost Maricopa County nearly $6 million
- 60-foot tower, anyone? Maricopa County Sheriff's Office auctioning parts of Tent City
- Crews begin dismantling Joe Arpaio's controversial "Tent City" complex in Arizona
- Tearing down Tent City Jail
- Joe Arpaio's Infamous Arizona Tent City Closing - AFL-CIO
- Joe Arpaio’s Tent City Is Closing, But Will Life for Undocumented Immigrants in Maricopa County Really Change?
- Why Maricopa County's New Sheriff Is Shutting Down Joe Arpaio's Tent City Jail
- Joe Arpaio's Infamous Tent City Jail In Maricopa County Will Shut Down : The Two-Way
- New Maricopa County, Ariz., sheriff to shut down Tent City
- Arizona shuts down Joe Arpaio's 'degrading' outdoor Tent City jail
- New sheriff in town to close Joe Arpaio’s outdoor Tent City jail, of pink underwear fame
- ‘That circus ends’: New Arizona sheriff to close Arpaio’s Tent City jail complex
- New sheriff shutting down Arpaio's tent city
- Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone to close controversial Tent City jail
- New Arizona sheriff puts an end to Joe Arpaio's controversial jail complex
- New sheriff in Arizona to close controversial 'Tent City' jail
- Tent City, infamous home of inmates who wear pink underwear and major piece of Arpaio's legacy, is closing
- Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio responds to Tent City closure
- Tent City, infamous home of inmates who wear pink underwear, is closing
- Tent City through the years
- Arizona’s Notorious ”Tent City” Jail Where Inmates Wear Pink Underwear Is Being Shut Down
- Arizona sheriff to shut down famed Tent City jails complex
- Lemons: Sheriff Penzone Shutters Tent City, Which Is One Reason We Elected Him
- Committee To Make Recommendation For MCSO On Future Of Tent City
- MCSO releases 58 undocumented inmates in 1 week
- Maricopa County Sheriff's Office gives rare look inside 4th Avenue Jail
- Maricopa County Fourth Avenue Jail
- Officials: 33 people on 'immigration holds' freed from Maricopa County jails since Friday
- Maricopa County Sheriff's Office fires detention officer accused of having sex with inmate
- Jury indicts MCSO officer for sex with inmate
- Montini: Your suggestions for reinventing Tent City
- No Immunity for Majority of Jail Officers In Fatal Maricopa County Beating - Metropolitan News-Enterprise