Central Arizona Correctional Facility Information – Private Prison

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CACF is the acronym for the Central Arizona Correctional Facility. This medium custody level prison is privately run in Florence, Arizona. The parent company, the GEO Group, contracts the facility and services out to the Arizona Department of Corrections in order to deliver treatment and custody to almost 1,300 different adult male inmates who have shown need for help in sex abuse treatment. The facility dates back to December of 2006 when it was opened. Since then, it has been both managed and operated by the GEO Group.

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Directions to get to Central Arizona Correctional Facility (CACF)

1401 East Diversion Dam Road
Florence, AZ 85132

Main Telephone: (520) 868-4809
Main Fax: (520) 868-5370

Coming from Phoenix, merge on to the interstate I-10 headed East towards Tucson. From here, take Exit 154 headed toward Mesa / Globe on US 60 East. Continue for about 40 miles until coming to Exit 212 and then merge on to the AZ 79 headed towards Tucson / Florence. After approximately 15 miles, make a left hand turn onto East Diversion Dam Road. The complex will be on your right-hand side.

Visitation Information / Contact Information

The visitors’ schedule at the Central Arizona Correctional Facility differs from many other comparable facilities. Visitors are only allowed to come by appointment. Hours that are permitted are from 8 am to 10 am and then from 1 pm to 3 pm, again by appointment only. You must first contact the prison 24 hours in advance of your planned visit in order to make arrangements for the time. Special Visits need to be approved by the Warden and submitted within 15 days of the request.

Mail Visitation Applications or Information Requests to the following address

ATTN: VISITATION
Central Arizona Correctional Facility
PO Box 9400
Florence, AZ 85132

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Work, Education and Treatment Programs in the Central Arizona Correctional Facility

This facility is not big on work programs for the inmates. They do offer the ABE Adult Basic Educational work and educational program to help keep inmates learning and growing towards better work. Prisoners can work towards improving their basic level of education while incarcerated here. The educational program offered is to gain your GED. This at least provides a basic high school diploma equivalency for inmates who are interested in bettering themselves for the future.

There are three important recovery programs offered to prisoners in this facility. These start with the alcohol and drugs abuse treatment programs of the AA Alcoholics Anonymous and the NA Narcotics Anonymous programs. They also provide the Sex Offender treatment program to those in need of sexual rehabilitation.

How Attorneys at DM Cantor Can Help After Conviction and Sentencing

In point of fact, most convicted criminals will serve out their full sentences given by the bench in the sentencing hearing. There could be reductions in the sentence given out based on good behavior during the actual prison sentence. There are times however when convicted defendants may pursue a series of steps to modify their sentences. Prosecutors and courts will seldom undertake the initiative on their behalf.

When Can Handed Down Sentences Be Altered?

Generally, after a judge issues their final verdict, and this has been entered into the records, the judge gives up his capability to alter the sentence going forward. An exception would be when a particular law provides the court with subsequent authority to make modifications.

Even Federal Courts are only permitted to make modifications to sentences in certain specific cases. The most common scenario would be when a crime that defendants were convicted of now carries reduced sentence times. Sentencing guidelines allow for the penalty ranges to be retroactive. The defendants then gain the rights to appeal to the court and judge to apply the retroactive sentencing ranges to their particular case.

What About Illegal Sentences?

There could also be illegal sentences handed down by the bench. These are ones with no grounding in law or that resulted from simple clerical errors. Based on the rules of criminal procedure, these can be corrected after the fact. The time line is a tight 15 days in Federal systems for the courts to reopen and clear out any errors that were made from sentencing to address technical, arithmetic, and other forms of clear errors.

There are a range of examples of illegal types of sentencing. These include the following:

Court imposed sentences that were done without appropriate jurisdiction
Sentences not conforming to the statutes’ relevant requirements
An ambiguous sentence that does not make it clear when or how the defendant has to serve out the incarceration
Sentences that do not meet the agreed upon plea bargain
Sentences which are inconsistent with the pronouncement of the judge

Arguments that sentences are unconstitutional can not fall under these guidelines. Similarly arguments that the judge had disallowed motivations in imposing the sentence have to be brought up on appeals.

There will be some defendants who successfully make the case that their own sentences were illegal. These would not be reversed in such cases. Rather, the sentences will go back to the trial court so that they can appropriately re-sentence the defendants.

In most circumstances, the defendants will have limits on their appeals to focus on issues the trial addressed and argued which they then lost. Defendants may not appeal that confessions were incorrectly admitted unless they did this during the trial. Where illegal sentences are concerned, it is up to appellate courts to raise these issues.

Some defendants will want a Sentence Modification. Motions for sentence modifications involve two step processes. The defendant will need to show that a new factor exists. When they do so successfully, the trial court will then have to decide if the new factor is worthy of modification for the sentence.

Newly Discovered Elements in a Case

It is up to the defendant to prove the existence of new factors with convincing, clear evidence. At issue will be the new facts that surround the sentencing. They must raise a point of law that can be effectively reviewed without having to defer to the trial court in question.

New factors include elements of fact that are greatly relevant to imposing a sentence. The trial judge must not have been aware of the facts during the sentencing phase. It may be that the existence of the facts in question had not yet been established or that they were unwittingly overlooked by all relevant parties.

There must also be a development that impacts the original sentence’s purpose. There would have to be a serious connection between the sentencing and the factor in question at the core of the sentence that the trial court selected originally.

After completing the criminal trial and any and all appropriate guilty pleas, there is still the prospect of sentence modifications. These can be made available for adjusting incarceration time that you must serve or alter other penalties associated with these. The modifications would need to be completed either after or before the sentencing begins. Some defendants have successfully reduced their penalties quite considerably.

Facts to Keep in mind With Sentence Modifications

A few things must be kept in mind before a petition can be effectively filed for modification. It is possible for errors in original sentencing to be caught and dealt with after the fact. Sometimes reductions in sentences can be made because of mental ability, age, or an ongoing terminal illness. It may also be that improper evidence had been presented in the trial. Such changes may be separate from any criminal appeal.

As always where appeals are concerned though, time is of the essence. You must act quickly in order to file such a motion for sentence modification. This is because there is a set and limited amount of time after a case is officially closed by when you must file for such sentence modification.

For more information about Post Conviction Relief, Sentence Modification or if you feel that someone has been incorrectly sentenced to prison, give us a call today and speak with one of our many experienced criminal defense attorneys. Speak with us day or night, we can even visit you or your friend/family member in prison. Call: 602-307-0808 to schedule a free case review.