As of Jan. 31, 2025, there were 314 people listed as Clark County inmates by the Arkansas Department of Corrections website.
There were three fewer Clark County inmates since January began. 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 288 men and 26 women. There are 159 black inmates, 151 white inmates and four of other races.
The following Clark County inmates have a parole- or transfer-eligible date in February 2025, although there are several factors that could affect any individual release for months or years.
Tommy Purdue, 54, is on the Nevada County Waiting list to serve a 25-year sentence for a theft conviction in Hempstead County, where he was sentenced in May 2024. The charge violated Purdue’s active parole for theft-related charges in Garland, Nevada and Clark (2013) counties.
Benjamin Clark, 29, is serving 20 years at the Wrightsville Unit for a pair of drug trafficking and fleeing charges out of Pulaski County. Sentenced in March 2023, the charges violated Clark’s active parole in Saline and Clark counties, where in 2018 he was charged with fleeing and second-degree criminal mischief.
David Gullet, 46, is serving a 5-year stint at the Randall L. Williams Correctional Facility in Pine Bluff for the conviction of possession of a firearm by a certain person, theft of a firearm, and first-degree terroristic threatening. He was sentenced in June 2024. Gullet was arrested Jan. 14, 2024, at College Inn, where he was a resident and had pulled a handgun on a female. Arkadelphia police responded to the scene when she phoned 911, and found the weapon in a vehicle where Gullet was located upon their arrival. Police discovered through a check of a criminal database that the loaded .380 pistol had been reported stolen out of Malvern.
Thomas C. Tigue, 50, is serving 20 years at the Ester Unit for convictions of drug charges in Pike County. He was sentenced in April 2023. The charges revoked parole of prior sentences on a drug delivery charge in Grant County. Tigue served probation in Clark County in 1995.
Willandro E. Ware, 31, is serving a 13-year sentence at the Tucker Unit. Ware was sentenced in February 2021 for convictions in four separate cases, from 2018-2021, on charges of furnishing prohibited articles, possession of a controlled substance with purpose to deliver, possession of a firearm by a certain person and criminal attempt. Court documents point out that Ware, after being released from the Clark County Detention Center in October 2018, attempted to smuggle narcotics into the jail later that day, stashing marijuana and meth or cocaine inside a shampoo bottle he had left for an inmate. That same year Ware was the target of an Arkadelphia traffic stop in which police found narcotics, and in 2020 was in another traffic stop where police found a firearm in his possession. In 2021 Ware, incarcerated for the aforementioned charges, plotted to have meth and K2 delivered to the jail. The plan, however, went amiss when a fellow prisoner, instructed to bring the drop into the facility, tossed the paraphernalia into the garbage and reported it to the jail administrator.
Larry L. Wilson, 71, is serving 16 1/2 years at the Grimes Unit in Newport for drug-related charges from 2023. Wilson was sentenced in June 2023 for a 2023 charge of drug possession during a traffic stop. The charge violated parole for previous drug-related convictions. Wilson has multiple convictions in Clark County dating to 1991.