Two positions on the Arkansas Board of Corrections will be open at the end of the year, giving Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders an ...

Arkansas’s prison population grew faster than the population itself over the last 15 years, even as overall crime has ...

People who are incarcerated can incur charges for court proceedings, restitution, parole and a variety of services. In ...

The Arkansas Board of Corrections voted to approve a method for paying attorney Abtin Mehdizadegan, who they hired in 2023 to ...

In the Natural State, 2025 was marked by headlines that spanned shocking crimes and stories of resilience. From a prison ...

When the Arkansas Board of Corrections agreed to pay a private law firm $300,000 for work on two lawsuits over its ...

An Arkansas inmate who spent more than a decade on death row died on Friday afternoon from an unknown cause, according to a ...

A hearing in Grant Hardin's criminal case for escaping from a north Arkansas prison earlier this year that was originally ...

The Arkansas State Penitentiary opened in 1841 in Little Rock and served as the state's main penal institution until it was moved in 1899 to allow for the construction of the State Capitol at the same ...

Eleven months into a contract with a California-based prison building consultant, Arkansas has paid the company $952,000 and twice issued warnings about spending excesses. The second admonition says ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A Little Rock man will be spending the rest of his life in prison after he gave a man fentanyl pills that led to his death. Officials with the United States Attorney's Eastern ...

A former owner of several Arkansas nursing homes who was pardoned by President Trump last month will reportedly still have to ...