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Visitations at many of Arizona's prisons are closed, while other limitations are in place due to an uptick in inmate violence ...
PHOENIX — Multiple Arizona state prisons will be on lockdown through Easter weekend due to unspecified security concerns.
The deaths mark the fourth and fifth suspicious inmate deaths in April 2025. The deaths also come after a triple homicide in a Tucson prison.
TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - Ongoing security concerns have caused lockdowns at several state prisons in Arizona.
Another inmate has been killed inside an Arizona state prison, just days after three others were murdered in a different ...
Now, ABC15 has learned two more inmates died this week and their deaths are being investigated as potential homicides.
Several Arizona state prisons are on lockdown through Easter weekend, according to the department of corrections. All visitations have been suspended, and visits were canceled at multiple units in ...
Ricky Wassenaar was convicted on 19 charges, including kidnapping, after a hostage situation at an Arizona state prison in ...
According to the Arizona Department of Corrections, Ricky Wassenaar killed Saul Alvarez, Thorne Harnage, and Donald Lashley ...
PHOENIX — An investigation is underway after an inmate died, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections, ...
The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry said the suspect was Ricky Wassenaar, a man who led an attempted prison escape in 2004. Before the attempted escape, Wassenaar was ...
Arizona inmate Ricky Wassenaar, currently serving 16 life sentences, is now being accused of killing three inmates.