Clark County inmates in the state prison system

As of Aug. 1, 2025, there were 310 people listed as Clark County inmates by the Arkansas Department of Corrections website.

There was no change in the number of Clark County inmates since July. The inmates are distributed among several institutions throughout the state.

There are 22 Clark County inmates serving life sentences or life without parole, and one Garland County inmate on death row who served probation in Clark County in the 1980s.

The total includes 286 men and 24 women. There are 154 black inmates, 152 white inmates and four of other races.

The following Clark County inmates have a parole- or transfer-eligible date in August 2025, although there are several factors that could affect any individual release for months or years.

Jeffery Campbell, 44, is serving 7 years at the Grimes Unit in Newport. Campbell’s current prison sentence history includes six drug-related convictions Pulaski and Garland counties. He was last sentenced in October 2024. He had a 2005 conviction in Clark County for theft.

Shawntell Dixon, 47, is serving 3 years at the Cummins Modular Unit for failing to register as a sex offender in Pulaski County, where he was sentenced in April 2025. Dixon’s current prison sentence history includes nine Clark County convictions from 2003 to 2020, ranging from failure to register as a sex offender to drug- and theft-related charges.

Charles D. Garner, 50, is serving 7 years at the Tucker Unit. His current prison sentence history includes 22 convictions in Garland, Hot Spring, Clark and Saline counties for charges ranging from theft and commercial burglary to fleeing and possession of a firearm by a certain person. His latest sentence was in December 2024. Garner was convicted in Clark County in 2004 for a case of breaking or entering.

Trent Hackney, 34, is serving a 13-year sentence at the North Central Unit in Calico Rock. He was sentenced in August 2023 in Faulkner County for failure to register as a sex offender and possession of a firearm by a certain person, and was charged as a habitual offender. Hackney has a prior criminal history in Clark County, where he was sentenced to 10 years of probation in 2010 for two separate cases: sexual indecency with a child and distributing/possessing/viewing sexually explicit child material.