Arizona Department of Corrections
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| Abbreviation | ADC |
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1875 |
| Preceding agency | Yuma Territorial Prison |
| Employees | 10,000 |
| Annual budget | 1,131,935.4 |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
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| Operations jurisdiction* | State of Arizona, USA |
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| Size | 113,998 square miles (295,250 km2) |
| Population | 6,500,180 (2008 est.) |
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| Headquarters | 1601 West Jefferson Street, Phoenix, Arizona 85007, USA |
| Agency executive | Charles L. Ryan, Director |
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| Arizona Department of Corrections Website | |
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| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Arizona Department of Corrections is statutory responsible for the incarceration of inmates in 10 prisons in the U.S. state of Arizona. As of December 2015, the ADC manages over 42,643 imprisoned inmates and over 5,466 inmates who have been paroled or that are statutorily released. ADC is also in involved in recruitment and training of Correctional Officers at the Correctional Officer Training Academy (COTA). It has its headquarters in Downtown Phoenix.
The male death row is located in the Browning Unit of Arizona State Prison Complex – Eyman. The female death row is in the Lumley Unit of the Arizona State Prison Complex-Perryville, Executions occur at the Central Unit of the Arizona State Prison Complex-Florence. As of 2010 one Arizona death row inmate is confined in West Virginia.
There are currently forty-eight state prisons, geographically grouped into fourteen Complexes and two correctional treatment facilities, for state prisoners in the U.S. state of Arizona. This number does not include federal prisons, detention centers for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or county jails
As of 2007 Arizona had exported more than 2000 prisoners to privately run facilities in Oklahoma and Indiana, a number that would have been higher if not for a riot of Arizona prisoners at the GEO Group's New Castle Correctional Facility on April 27, 2007, protesting the practice. As of 2013, the states of Vermont, California and Hawaii export prisoners to facilities in Arizona.
In July, 2014 a teacher was raped at the Meadows Unit of the Arizona State Prison Complex at Eyman. She had been left alone in a room full of sex offenders who stabbed and gang-raped her. The radio she was issued was tuned to a frequency not in use. The guards failed to make their required checks. The state settled the matter for an undisclosed amount.
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