Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry
law enforcement agency in Arizona, USA
The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry (ADCRR), commonly and formerly referred to as simply the Arizona Department of Corrections, is the statutory law enforcement agency responsible for the incarceration of inmates in 13 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) in Tucson, Arizona. The ADC is headquartered in Downtown Phoenix.
Funding
Death row
Arizona's death row for males is located at the Rincon Unit of the Arizona State Prison Complex – Tucson. Female death row prisoners are housed at the Lumley Unit of the Arizona State Prison Complex – Perryville. Executions occur at the Central Unit of the Arizona State Prison Complex – Florence.
Facilities
There are currently forty-eight state prisons, geographically grouped into fourteen complexes and two correctional treatment facilities in Arizona. This number does not include federal prisons, detention centers for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or county jails
As of 2007, Arizona had exported more than 2,000 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.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry” is law enforcement agency in Arizona, USA. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Arizona, Department and Corrections, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “law enforcement agency in Arizona, USA” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4791291. VIAF identifies the subject as 157829818. 2 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 4 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015, 2007 and 2013.
Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.
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Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry primary sources, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry archive and Arizona research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry”?
- Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
- Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from “Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.