The Board of Corrections voted Friday to approve the purchase of an 815-acre property in Charleston with plans to build build ...

Both steps are part of an ongoing effort to increase bed space for inmates throughout the Arkansas Department of Corrections ...

"For Charleston, Franklin County, and the River Valley, it will offer hundreds of permanent, recession-proof jobs and millions of dollars in investment," Sanders said. The board voted 6-1 in favor of ...

Members of the Arkansas Department and Board of Corrections tried to answer why the new prison site was selected in Franklin ...

Both steps are part of an ongoing effort to increase bed space for inmates throughout the Arkansas Department of Corrections system. "New beds are essential," Magness said after the meeting.

During the Arkansas Legislative Council and Joint Budget Committee's budget hearing for the Department of Corrections for fiscal 2026, state Sen. Linda Chesterfield, D-Little Rock, questioned ...

“The Department of Corrections’ mission is to provide safety and hope for Arkansans, but we won’t accomplish that effectively without adequate bed capacity,” Arkansas Secretary of ...

The Board of Corrections on Friday, November 8, 2024 accepted land in rural west as the site of a planned prison of up to ...

Robinson confirmed Sellars got 40 years for the sexual assault charges and 190 years for the CSAM charges, totaling 230 years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections. Sellars was credited for ...

With this new facility, we will add even more beds and deliver on our promises to the people of Arkansas.” Department of Corrections officials did not have an estimated timeline or a full cost ...

Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Arkansas Department of Corrections Secretary Lindsay Wallace, Arkansas Board of Corrections Chairman Benny Magness, and other state and local officials announced that ...