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The state purchased a 92.41-acre (37.40 ha) tract outside of Little Rock in 1839, and the Third General Assembly allocated another $40,500 ($1,236,000 today) in 1840 to finish construction of the Arkansas State Penitentiary.
Arkansas Department of Corrections#Prisons From a cross-project redirect : This is a redirect from a title linked to an item on Wikidata. The Wikidata item linked to this page is list of Arkansas state prisons (Q4435660) .
The incarceration numbers for the states in the chart below are for sentenced and unsentenced inmates in adult facilities in local jails and state prisons. Numbers for federal prisons are in the Federal line. Asterisk (*) indicates "Incarceration in STATE" or "Crime in STATE" links. Correctional supervision numbers for Dec 31, 2018.
In 1978 a new death chamber opened in Cummins, so Tucker was no longer the place of execution in Arkansas. [5] In 1986 male death row inmates were moved to the Maximum Security Unit. [12] On August 22, 2003, all 39 of the state's death row inmates, all of them male, were moved to the Supermax at the Varner Unit. [13]
Five former inmates at an Arkansas county jail have settled their lawsuit against a doctor who they said gave them the antiparasitic drug ivermectin to fight COVID-19 without their consent. A ...
In 2012, a special needs unit was opened which included a 72-bed hospital, and a 40-bed special services area which included a barracks for elderly, chronically ill and acute-illness inmates. [2] Over 4000 prisoners-per-year in Arkansas are studying to receive their GED. Each May, prisoners who have earned their GED are brought to the Ouachita ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Tommy Robinson, who gained notoriety as an Arkansas sheriff for tactics that included chaining inmates outside a state prison to protest overcrowding ...
A Benton County corrections officer has been arrested after a female inmate in the jail accused him of “sexual misconduct.” Kevin Lee Bell was booked Tuesday into the Franklin County jail on ...