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Tucson Sentinel
22m ago
Sheriff Nanos says the crisis at the Pima County Jail is due largely to a lack of staff. The families of inmates who died, often in violent circumstances, say that a culture of apathy and brutality is to blame, and that the problems will continue until it is fixed ..read more
Tucson Sentinel
22m ago
In 2022, the death rate at the Pima County Jail was nearly four times the national average, a situation Sheriff Chris Nanos called "a full-blown crisis." The Sheriff's Department's proposed solution is a new jail, but the families of those who died say it won't solve the underlying issues ..read more
Tucson Sentinel
22m ago
Behind the bars of the Pima County Adult Detention Center, detainees awaiting trial and inmates serving sentences for low-level infractions were for years dying at a shocking rate. In early 2022, the Tucson Sentinel calculated that the rate of deaths here was higher than it was among those held at the notorious Rikers Island ..read more
Tucson Sentinel
2h ago
Pima County voters can cast a ballot in the July 30 primary at multiple emergency voting locations on Saturday, July 27, and Monday, July 29. The emergency voting locations will be closed on Sunday, July 28 ..read more
Judge: Az GOP use of ‘unborn human being’ is a biased way to describe abortion rights ballot measure
Tucson Sentinel
5h ago
Republican lawmakers violated state law when they used the phrase “unborn human being” to describe the Arizona Abortion Access Act in a voter information pamphlet, a Maricopa County judge ruled - a decision Republicans already said they will appeal ..read more
Tucson Sentinel
5h ago
FC Tucson plays for the Western Division championship of USL League Two on Friday afternoon in Peoria, Ill. Whether or not this is the furthest that FC Tucson has made in the playoffs depends on how one reckons such things ..read more
Tucson Sentinel
8h ago
Anti-abortion group Arizona Right to Life filed a lawsuit to block voters from deciding whether the Arizona Constitution should be amended to protect abortion rights, claiming the ballot measure is too confusing and misleading ..read more
Tucson Sentinel
8h ago
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced he is suing the Biden administration over a Nixon-era federal contraception program that provides teens birth control without requiring parental consent ..read more
Tucson Sentinel
8h ago
Members of the Democratic National Convention’s Rules Committee met to lay out the timeline for delegates to cast their votes in the first open convention in decades, as Vice President Kamala Harris has been all but confirmed as the Democratic choice to run in November ..read more
Tucson Sentinel
8h ago
A former business professor who has taught at numerous colleges and universities, including Maricopa Community Colleges, pleaded guilty Thursday to sending threatening messages to Arizona election workers during and after the 2022 primaries ..read more