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Arizona State Prison – Kingman is a privately run minimum/medium-security prison designed to hold 3500 prisoners. It is located in unincorporated Mohave County , Arizona , in Golden Valley . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] When the idea of the prison was being sold to the residents of Golden Valley it was promised that it would be a prison only for Dui offenders.
Arizona State Prison – Kingman (operated by GEO Group)(capacity 3,508) (Opened 2004) Arizona State Prison Florence-West (operated by the GEO Group) (capacity 500 male DUI and 250 Criminal Aliens(CA) Minimum Security) (Opened 1997) Arizona State Prison Phoenix-West (operated by the GEO Group) (capacity 500) (Opened 1996)
Prison guards lacked proper firearms training, and the prison lacked a proper weapons inventory. 75% of inmates did not have proper identification. After the capture, Arizona moved 148 Kingman inmates to other prisons and added restrictions qualifying which inmates were eligible to be held in minimum- and medium-security prisons. [33]
The officers were found to have failed to make their required checks. The state settled the matter for an undisclosed amount and the Department of Corrections denies any wrongdoing. [13] In July 2015, at the medium security housing area at the Arizona State Prison-Kingman a four-day riot damaged facilities so extensively as to require major ...
Shocking claims made in a federal courtroom in downtown Phoenix on Monday call into question the very fundamentals of incarceration in Arizona. Arizona prisoner alleges warden ordered 'inmate-on ...
A transgender woman who was assaulted by a male inmate while housed in a men’s unit at an Arizona penitentiary has won a $10,000 judgment in a federal civil rights lawsuit. Grace Pinson, 38, was ...
The Arizona State Prison – Kingman has a Golden Valley address and is 10 miles (16 km) south of the community. When it was being sold to the residents of Golden Valley it was promised it would be a prison for DUI offenders only. Due to control of the inmate population problems the contract for the prison has changed hands since its opening.
The Arizona corrections department would not comment on injuries that occurred during a previous administration, but said prisoners have access to all necessary medical care. The department also ...