The Arkansas Board of Corrections will pay a private attorney more than $300,000 after prevailing in two lawsuits involving ...

Arkansas doesn't have a legal way to bring someone back to the state to serve prison time if they are released by authorities elsewhere, but Tuesday the Board of Corrections gave themselves the power ...

Despite 2022 consent order, corrections department still hasn’t met obligation to bring sewage treatment unit into permit ...

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

Officials with the Arkansas Department of Corrections said they are centering the search of a prison escapee in parts of ...

The court ruled in favor of the Arkansas Board of Corrections, striking down laws that aimed to shift control of the Department of Corrections over to the governor.

Gov. Sarah Sanders, shown here speaking to legislators during her 2025 State of the State address, has made a new 3,000-bed prison one of the key parts of her agenda. Credit: Benji Hardy There might ...

Wayne Schutz was being housed at the Benton Work Release Unit, serving an eight-year sentence for breaking and entering out ...

The Arkansas Department of Corrections has made little discernible progress in fixing an aging wastewater plant that ...