What if, instead of spending years constructing a billion-dollar prison, and locating it in a community that doesn’t want it at a site that seems ill-suited, the state partnered with counties to expand local jail facilities and house lower-level inmates closer to home?
Instead of building a 3,000-bed prison in Northwest Arkansas to reduce crowding in county jails, one senator said the state should fund local correctional facilities
Two opponents of a prison planned for Franklin County were threatened with arrest for criminal trespassing on Tuesday and escorted out of a Arkansas Department of Corrections meeting, which they said they thought was open to the public
As of Dec. 31, 2024, there were 317 people listed as Clark County inmates by the Arkansas Department of Corrections website
As of Dec. 1, 2024, there were 329 people listed as Clark County inmates by the Arkansas Department of Corrections website
Arkansas’ residential Community Correction Centers are in Little Rock, West Memphis, Osceola, Malvern, Texarkana and Batesville
