Lloyd Byrd, a 70-year-old inmate, was awarded his GED degree after a 50-year effort, marking a milestone in his quest for ...

The board that runs Arkansas’ prison and parole systems has its first new chairman in two decades, and a majority appointed ...

A 20-year-old state Department of Corrections officer died in a crash last week not far from the Lincoln County prison where ...

Lloyd Byrd, an inmate under the Arkansas Department of Corrections' Tucker Unit, has completed his General Educational ...

The Arkansas Board of Corrections is taking part in an "erosion of institutional integrity" after firing its legal counsel and attempting to rewrite the history of its litigation with the governor's ...

Arkansas' Parole Board and Department of Corrections is facing a class action civil rights lawsuit brought by high-power law ...

Criticism came quickly last month following Gov. Sarah Sanders' decision to appoint a political consultant to the Arkansas Board of Corrections.

Peter Csere, a co-founder of the controversial whites-only Arkansas community Return to the Land (RTTL), is facing a lawsuit ...

A lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas alleges that the state's parole revocation proceedings are unconstitutional, denying inmates their right to due ...

Arkansas Celebrates America250 shares the state’s history with the U.S.A. by showcasing its landmarks.

Two years ago, the Arkansas Board of Corrections seemed to be one of the few obstacles for Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders as she pushed for sweeping changes to how the ...

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 ...