Clark County inmates with a parole/transfer date in March

As of March 1, there were 335 people listed as Clark County inmates by the state Department of Corrections website.

There are 8 more Clark County inmates in the prison system in March compared to February. The inmates are distributed among several institutions throughout the state.

The total includes 314 men and 21 women. There are 171 black inmates, 159 white inmates and five of other races.

The following Clark County inmates have a parole- or transfer-eligible date in March 2024, although there are several factors that could affect any individual release for months or years.

Maaz Aldarweesh, 30, is serving a 15-year sentence at the Wrightsville Unit on a conviction of second-degree sexual assault. He was sentenced in 2021. A police affidavit says Aldarweesh, in 2019, had sex with an 18-year-old female who was too intoxicated to give consent.

Jacob Barkman, 38, is serving an 8-year sentence at the East Arkansas Regional Unit in Brickeys for a Pike County conviction of possession of a controlled substance. His current prison sentence includes past convictions from Pike, Montgomery and Clark counties, as well, with charges ranging from arson to commercial and residential burglary.

Chase Garner, 23, is serving a 2-year sentence at the Ester Unit for a conviction of sexual indecency with a child. Garner was sentenced in November 2023. A police affidavit says Garner sent sexually explicit messages to an adolescent female on an instant messaging app.

Roderick Gray, 61, is serving a 10-year sentence at the Tucker Unit for separate convictions of possession of a controlled substance and maintaining a drug premises in a drug-free zone. Gray was sentenced in October 2023. A police affidavit says he was arrested that July following a traffic stop in which an officer located drugs and paraphernalia. His current sentence also includes charges from a 2018 police-controlled buy of meth at the Pioneer Inn parking lot.

Dennis Leeper, 60, is serving a 10-year sentence at the Tucker Unit. Leeper’s sentence stems from drug-related charges in Hot Spring County, although he has previous sentence history in Clark County (1982 and 2000) for drug- and theft-related charges.

Cortney Thomas, 33, is serving 7 years at the Ouachita River Correctional Unit in Malvern for a conviction of possession with purpose to deliver meth/cocaine. Thomas was sentenced in February 2023. A police affidavit says Brown, of Mineral Springs, was arrested as a passenger during a December 2022 traffic stop in Arkadelphia, as the arresting officer found drugs on his person. Thomas, charged as an habitual offender, has prior sentence history in Howard County.

Stephen Warren, 37, is participating in the Benton Work Release program on a 15-year sentence in Montgomery County. He was convicted on charges of burglary, theft of a firearm, possession of a firearm by a certain person and breaking or entering. Warren has prior sentence history in Pike County and in Clark County, where he was convicted of forgery charges in 2014.

Franklin Watkins, 35, is serving 18 years at the Cummins Unit in Grady for convictions of drug possession and furnishing prohibited articles. Watkins was sentenced in 2018. The Sparkman man was arrested at an Arkadelphia residence in 2017 for a parole warrant; during that arrest officers located ecstasy and meth on his person. While incarcerated at the county jail he was caught with a homemade “shank” in his cell.