There are currently forty-eight state prisons, geographically grouped into fourteen Complexes and two correctional treatment facilities, for state prisoners in the U.S. state of Arizona.
As of 2007 Arizona had exported more than 2000 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 [REF].