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In 1993, Arkansas created the Department of Community Punishment (DCP), which would evolve into the DCC. Arkansas briefly contracted with a private prison between 1998 and 2001, but inmate conditions were unsafe and unsanitary and United States Department of Justice ruled Arkansas' private prison unconstitutional in 2003.
According to a November 2017 report by the World Prison Brief around 212,000 of the 714,000 female prisoners worldwide (women and girls) are incarcerated in the United States. [11] In the United States in 2016, women made up 9.8% of the incarcerated population in adult prisons and jails.
On October 10, 2013, FoxNews.com reported on how the United States federal government shutdown of 2013 was affecting employees at FCI Forrest City. Citing a story from WMC-TV, prison employees were unsure when the next time they would receive a paycheck amid the shutdown, but the inmates are continuing to get paid for jobs like landscaping.
Location of Benton in Saline County, and Saline County in Arkansas. The Benton Unit is a prison located in Benton, Arkansas. It is managed by the Arkansas Department of Corrections. It was founded in 1974. [1]
Location of Wrightsville in Pulaski County, and Pulaski County in Arkansas. The Wrightsville Unit is an Arkansas Department of Correction prison in Wrightsville, Arkansas. [1] Over 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) of land at Wrightsville is dedicated to the raising of cattle and the production of hay. [2]
Local law enforcement officers and state troopers arrested Steven Dishman, 60, at a home in Springdale, Arkansas, about 200 miles northwest of Little Rock, Arkansas, state police spokesman Bill ...
Netflix viewers get a rare look at the inside of an Arkansas prison in the streaming service’s latest hit series, “Unlocked: A Jail Experiment.” ... According to documents viewed by TODAY ...
Location of Pine Bluff in Arkansas, and Pine Bluff in Jefferson County. Barbara A. Ester Unit is a correctional facility of the Arkansas Department of Correction (ADC), located in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It is scheduled to have a capacity of 580 prisoners, and it is the first prison in the ADC dedicated to the re-entry of prisoners into society. [1]