Facing vocal opposition, limited funding and logistical challenges, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the state Board of ...

Sheriff Daniel Perry said the deal with the federal government would have brought in around $500,000 annually to Crawford County.

Despite failing to convince Arkansas lawmakers to approve $750 million dollars in funding to build a 3,000-bed prison in Franklin County, the state is not backi ...

Three bills signed into law during the final work week of the Arkansas 95th General Assembly intend to lower the rate of ...

A hotly debated bill to allocate millions of dollars for a new Arkansas prison has likely ended its journey through the state legislature.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A new bill filed in the Arkansas Legislature proposes a major investment in the state's prison system, ...

"Yes, we committed a crime," she said. "But we got to prison to be rehabilitated. Not used and abused."A spokesperson with the Arkansas Department of Corrections provided details on prison slavery ...

SO A FUNDING BILL THAT WOULD HELP BUILD THE PROPOSED STATE PRISON IN FRANKLIN COUNTY FAILS ON THE SENATE FLOOR TODAY. SENATE BILL 354 WOULD APPROPRIATE UP TO $750 MILLION FROM THE ARKANSAS ...

has been sentenced for distributing child pornography, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Arkansas reported Friday, April 4. Nathaniel Gareth Doggett, 22, has been sentenced to 16 ...

A 23-year-old Lonoke man has accepted a 32-year prison sentence for fatally shooting a North Little Rock man during a holdup at a Pulaski County park. John Lynch has been covering criminal cases ...

Bruce Ward, a convicted murderer who was the longest-serving inmate on Arkansas' death row, has died, the state Department of Corrections said. He was 68.

(KAIT) - Arkansas’s longest-standing death row inmate has died. The Arkansas Department of Corrections announced Bruce Ward died of natural causes around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 1. Ward was ...