The Arizona Department of Corrections headquarters In downtown Phoenix
It was 10 years ago at the Eyman state prison in Florence. John Fabricius, an inmate at the time, had a job working as a clerk for a correctional officer.
He said the Arizona Department of Corrections administrators were nervous, because it was announced a reporter was coming to tour the prison. And that we needed to take a lot of steps to make sure that everything that he saw was exactly what they wanted him to see,” he said.
Fabricius says he was told to instruct fellow inmates not to speak with the journalist and to warn everyone to stay on their best behavior. “You know, literally taking care of every step that he was going to walk on the sidewalk, the buildings he was going to enter, the inmate areas, all of that was scrubbed by inmates for three days in advance of that tour.”