Florence
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Oct 19, 2026
Steve CohenGUEST
We're living in a surreal world.
Steve CohenGUEST
And to see Donald Trump going around at these places like Florence, Arizona, and talking about the election being stolen from him, the man is mentally ill.
Steve CohenGUEST
And other times there would be a guy with a big, Ned coming after him to grab him and take him back to the asylum.
Michael CohenHOST
He's the kind of guy that you would see on television when they had the hook.
Darren MarlarHOST
Eva Dugan, the only woman Arizona has executed.
Darren MarlarHOST
Florence, Arizona, February 21st, 1930.
Darren MarlarHOST
In December 1926, A.J. Mathis lived by himself at his ranch on the Oracle Road, about four miles north of Tucson.
Darren MarlarHOST
He was in town on December 11th, and there, the Arizona Supreme Court later wrote, he met by chance a woman who had just arrived from California and was looking for employment.
Darren MarlarHOST
However, the jury was not bound to believe defendant's statement that Jack killed Mathis, Justice Ross wrote.
Darren MarlarHOST
They had a perfect right to disregard such statement.
Darren MarlarHOST
She spent her last night in the prison at Florence with the chaplain and a few friends, the AP reported.
Darren MarlarHOST
Until after midnight, she sat at a card table playing whist with two women friends and a woman prisoner while the death watch paced outside.
Bernie McPartlandPANELIST
Tom Mix, you probably don't remember him, big cowboy star.
Bernie McPartlandPANELIST
He was killed, killed, when he loses control of his speeding cord-fading convertible and rolls into a dry wash, now called the Tom Mix Wash, near Florence, Arizona.
Bernie McPartlandPANELIST
See the similarity there of maybe...
Bernie McPartlandPANELIST
Yeah,
Mike BroomheadHOST
Kylie Warner writes it.
Mike BroomheadHOST
Uh, Democrats question a 1.2 con- $1.2 billion contract to expand Florence immigration detention facilities.
Mike BroomheadHOST
So the Arizona...
Mike BroomheadHOST
Three US House Democrats demanding answers about co- this contract with GardaWorld last month.
Charlie KirkHOST
Charlie, Sharon and Rob here from Gold Canyon, Arizona.
Charlie KirkHOST
We went there last week, the new Pinal County office in Florence, Arizona.
Charlie KirkHOST
When they opened early voting, which is a hop, skip, and jump from Gold Canyon, no one in line to vote, meaning no wait.
Charlie KirkHOST
We were prepared with our ballots, so 15 minutes in and out of there.
KelseyHOST
In 1909, the prison had reached its limits and could expand no more to house the ever-growing inmate population.
KelseyHOST
A new prison in Florence, Arizona was completed in 1909, and inmates were transferred to the new prison, leaving the territorial prison empty.
KelseyHOST
The growing population of Yuma needed a temper- temporary building to use as a high school.
MeganHOST
[laughs]
KelseyHOST
Look at her.
KelseyHOST
Wow.
KelseyHOST
Pearl Hart gained notoriety on May 30th, 1899, when she and Joe Boot robbed the Globe to Florence stagecoach, making her a media sensation nationwide.
KelseyHOST
Sentenced to five years in Yuma Territorial Prison, she served only two after winning a pardon, reputedly stand- using her charm on both guards and fellow prisoners.
Clifford FewelGUEST
I didn't think I would wanna be one of these guys who has to peel off his uniform shirt down to his T-shirt so he can go in and have a beer and talk about what a hellish day they had.
Clifford FewelGUEST
And I thought, "Wow, there but for the grace of God go I." In 2008, I was living in Florence, Arizona, and that was the industry in town, and I was, I was at a crossroads.
Clifford FewelGUEST
And so I went in to talk to the hiring lieutenant, and she turned my head around.
Clifford FewelGUEST
She said, "Cliff, you're a smart guy, and don't think of it as just that you're gonna be a prison guard.
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And so, big news.
speaker_10SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
A new copper plant just opened up in Florence, Arizona, bringing hundreds of jobs and more copper made right here in the U.S.
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Leaders from the community, government, and industry came together to celebrate the start of the Florence Copper Plant.
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It's the first new copper source in the country, they tell us, since 2008.
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The plant will make 1.5 billion pounds of copper, they say, over the next 22 years.
Sebastian FowlerGUEST
The first three were great.
Sebastian FowlerGUEST
Like, so just back to the, to the Florence...
Sebastian FowlerGUEST
It was the Florence Fire Department, by the way, in Florence, Arizona.
Sebastian FowlerGUEST
They're a bunch of big pussies.
Sebastian FowlerGUEST
And I, I don't know if I can say that on here, but they are.
Lauren GilgerHOST
ICE has signed a series of contracts worth up to $7.3 billion to expand attention in five states.
Lauren GilgerHOST
And here in Arizona, that adds up to a $1.2 billion contract to be spent in Florence.
Lauren GilgerHOST
The move comes after ICE's nationwide plan to buy up commercial warehouses and turn them into immigration detention facilities failed.
Lauren GilgerHOST
One of those warehouses was located right here in Surprise, where residents banded together to protest the move.
Michael RistonGUEST
And so that's what this contract is demonstrating.
Lauren GilgerHOST
Okay.
Lauren GilgerHOST
So one of those contracts here in Arizona, in Florence, $1.2 billion, it was awarded.
Lauren GilgerHOST
What do we know about what those plans might look like?
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