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For the first time since 1996, Pima County will elect a new county attorney. The county attorney holds the most powerful position in the criminal legal system, deciding who goes to prison and for how long.

In August, Pima County voters will choose a new county attorney: one of the most powerful elected positions in Arizona’s criminal legal system. It will be the first time Pima County has a new county attorney in more than two decades.

The ACLU of Arizona will host a virtual roundtable "Confined During a Pandemic: Public Health is Public Safety" featuring state and community leaders.

The nationwide call to decarcerate jails and prisons to combat COVID-19 is not a matter of politics, as Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel argued in a recent opinion editorial, but of fact.

The Maricopa County Attorney is the most powerful person in Arizona’s criminal legal system. This elected position sets the policies and procedures that all prosecutors in its office must follow. They decide who goes to prison and for how long.

The Elected Official's with the Power to Fix Arizona's Imprisonment Crisis

ACLU of Arizona Community Partnership Coordinator Khalil Rushdan will present a response to the Governor’s State of the State during a Facebook livestream event. His remarks are below.

The following letter was written by a person living in an Arizona state prison. The ACLU of Arizona is sharing the letter with permission from the author’s family.

For years, the Arizona Department of Corrections (recently renamed Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry), has demonstrated a deeply rooted culture of dehumanization and has failed to provide even basic medical care to people.