The Arkansas Senate confirmed Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ former deputy chief of staff to the state Board of ...

Arkansas State Police Special Agent Drake Champagne (left) and Special Investigator Mike McNeill present their agency's report on the state prison system's handling of the May 2025 escape of a ...

The Arkansas Senate on Friday narrowly confirmed Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' appointment of lobbyist and the governor's former deputy chief staff Jamie Barker to the state Board of Corrections.

The Arkansas State Penitentiary opened in 1841 in Little Rock and served as the state's main penal institution until it was moved in 1899 to allow for the construction of the State Capitol at the same ...

It was no secret that Sanders wanted a new state prison: She campaigned for governor in 2022 on putting more people behind bars in Arkansas, and soon after taking office she spearheaded the Protect ...

Inmates in Arkansas prisons will be able to get books and periodicals shipped to them -- for now. The Department of Corrections has suspended a ban on sending the materials into facilities, citing an ...

Brotha Knowledge read constantly while in the Arkansas state prisons. Over his nearly three decades behind bars, he read nearly 3,000 books and built a personal library, stacking them in his cell ...

The mother of a 4-year-old girl who was brutally murdered in 1986 says news that her daughter's killer has died in prison ...

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The Arkansas Senate confirmed Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ former deputy chief of staff to the state Board of Corrections Friday, March 20, 2026 with several GOP lawmakers opposing his ...

Senate Democrats leaned in on soft power this week, providing the votes Gov. Sarah Sanders needed to seat her prison board ...