The jail excise tax remains the backbone of public safety funding in Maricopa County. Voters must be given ... provide mandated health services to inmates, and fund probation and other essential ...

according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. MCSO releases data on recent deaths in the jails. In 2023, 41 inmates died while in jail, and in 2024, there were 27 deaths. So far this year ...

Maricopa County’s new sheriff will close a controversial tent jail opened by his predecessor ... He said Tent City would hold more than 2,000 inmates, and called it a low-cost solution to building a ...