This comes as the senate repeatedly failed to pass an appropriations bill that would've allocated $750 million for the project.

William Straughn will be the liaison between the Arkansas Department ... director also oversees the other prison units at Marianna, Newport, Tucker and Calico Rock. In early October, Vanir ...

The Arkansas Senate continued to block a $750 million prison appropriation bill Monday when it voted down the legislation for ...

The Senate continued to block a $750 million prison appropriation bill Monday, April 7, 2025 when it voted down the ...

As of April 10, 2025, there were 315 people listed as Clark County inmates by the Arkansas Department of Corrections website.

The Senate on Wednesday, April 2, 2025 rejected for the second day in a row a $750 million appropriation bill to support construction of a new 3,000-bed prison in ...

Calico Rock, 1909: Based on their clothing ... Ray Hanley is a retired health care and IT executive, historian, producer of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's "Postcard Past" feature and author ...

An Arkansas couple have been sentenced to 70 years in prison after they were found guilty of child abuse leading to death.

The bill to allocate funding for a new 3,000-bed prison failed in an 18-13 vote after being resubmitted in the Senate on Wednesday afternoon. On Tuesday, the identical bill failed on a 19-10 vote, ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The longest-standing inmate on Arkansas's death row has now died while in a state prison. According to officials, Bruce Ward died due to natural causes at 4:30 p.m. on April ...