Internal emails obtained by Fox News Digital show Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes’ chief deputy, Daniel Barr, asked the ACLU and the Prison Law Office, two groups that spent years suing the state’s prisons, to recommend lawyers for corrections work and for the prison agency’s top legal job. Neither the AG’s office nor the groups responded to Fox.

A Labor Department inspector general memo questions more than $210 million in federal job-training grants to Minnesota as “unsupported costs” after the state’s employment agency, DEED, did not hand over participant data for nearly four months. The memo says that alone does not prove the money was misspent. Minnesota says the request was too intrusive.