Arizona’s Prison Oversight Office Still Unfunded One Year Later

Arizona’s Prison Oversight Office Still Unfunded One Year Later

When Governor Katie Hobbs signed bipartisan legislation creating an Independent Correctional Oversight Office in 2025, lawmakers from both parties hailed it as a long-overdue step toward fixing Arizona’s troubled prison system. One year later, the office exists on paper only, as if a figment of legislative imagination.  Despite strong bipartisan support for the bill, the Legislature has yet to provide the office any funding. As a result, the off…