Tent City, Maricopa County’s infamous outdoor jail, quietly closed for business this weekend. Its remaining inmates were taken from the 7-acre compound in southwest Phoenix late Saturday night ...

Tent City, Maricopa County’s infamous outdoor jail, quietly closed for business this weekend. Its remaining inmates were taken from the 7-acre compound in southwest Phoenix late Saturday night ...

Tent City, Maricopa County’s open-air jail notorious for hosting inmates wearing pink underwear in the blistering summer heat, will shut down, according to Sheriff Paul Penzone. Penzone made ...

The legacy of former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio took a hit when his successor announced last week that he's tearing down Arpaio’s infamous Tent City Jail. The open-air jail was built in ...

PHOENIX — The end of Maricopa County’s controversial Tent City jail is almost here. Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone made the announcement to close the facility down in early April.

Joe Arpaio, the former top cop in Phoenix’s Maricopa County, established the jail in 1993. But he was voted out of office last year. Soon, Tent City will also be gone. Erected in a remote area ...

Jails shouldn't be places of punishment, but Tent City is. July 29, 2013— -- Tent City is an open-air jail in Phoenix, Arizona, where more than 2,000 inmates are housed in repurposed military ...

That we are so tough on prisoners in Maricopa County, that this is how we treat them, that this is false,” Woods said. Then-Sheriff Paul Penzone ended the practice of using Tent City when he ...

Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio routinely pointed to the notorious, outdoor Tent City Jail he opened in the 1990s as a symbol of his "tough on crime" stance. Inmates live in tents ...