Clark County inmates held in the Arkansas prison system

As of June 1, 2024, there were 331 people listed as Clark County inmates by the state Department of Corrections website.

There was no change in the number of Clark County inmates from May to June. The inmates are distributed among several institutions throughout the state.

There are 22 Clark County inmates serving life sentences or life without parole.

The total includes 312 men and 19 women. There are 168 black inmates, 159 white inmates and four of other races.

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

Jirrus Brewer, 28, of Gurdon, is serving a 20-year sentence at the Cummins Unit in Grady. He was convicted and sentenced in 2019 on charges of residential burglary, escape and second-degree battery. Court records say Gurdon marshals took Brewer into custody following a report of a home invasion. Brewer was able to escape custody at the marshal’s office, but sheriff’s deputies eventually caught up with him.

Charles Wayne Carter, 33, of Gurdon, is on the Clark County waiting list awaiting transfer to serve a 3-year prison sentence. Carter was sentenced in May 2024 on 2023 charges of arson, theft of property, criminal mischief and breaking or entering. Court records say Carter stole an ATV and drove it to his residence on Central Road, where he set the vehicle ablaze.

Currently on the Benton work release program, Hugh Jackson, 30, is serving 10 years. He was sentenced in 2021 to charges of possession of a Schedule VI Controlled Substance and simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms. Jackson was arrested in January 2020 during a traffic stop when a Group 6 Narcotics agent located 7 bags of medical marijuana (Jackson was not in possession of a medical marijuana card) and 3 bags of street marijuana weighing a total of 47 grams, and 3 THC vape cartridges. In addition to the pot, police found a pistol and a loaded AK-47 in the vehicle, as well as $11,114 in cash. Jackson became the target of yet another arrest the following year when Group 6 Narcotics agents executed a search warrant on his Killingsworth Road residence and found THC vape cartridges and K2, synthetic marijuana.

Ricky Ray Provence, 43, of Amity, is serving a 12-year sentence at Mississippi County W/R in Luxora. Provence was sentenced in 2022 on charges of possession of a firearm by a certain person, theft by receiving, possession of a controlled substance-meth or cocaine, and use of another’s property to facilitate a crime. Provence became a suspect after Group 6 Narcotics learned of complaints that he was dealing stolen firearms and narcotics. A walk-through of his Texas Road residence revealed methamphetamine and paraphernalia. Although questioned about stolen firearms, the probable cause affidavit does not indicate that any firearms were seized during the search.

Jacoby Wright, 36, is serving a four-year sentence at the Ester Unit. Wright, of Arkadelphia, was sentenced in October 2023 for parole revocation from a charge of first-degree battery. Wright’s original charge stems from a 2017 attack with a “large” speaker on a man outside a Main Street residence.