As the 3,000-bed state prison slated for Franklin County gets closer to reality, concerned residents and lawmakers are ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — After news hit that a state employee had been removed from the Franklin County prison project for reportedly sending an email that appeared to mock residents, opponents of ...

Ever since Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the Arkansas Department of Corrections announced the purchase of 815 acres of ...

Benny Magness, chairman of the Arkansas Board of Corrections, says the projected costs to build the proposed 3,000-bed prison ...

McCutchen claims those with the ADFA didn't tell the board what the land purchase was for when it was approved in September.

Arkansas’ prison bed shortage has gone on for decades, and under my leadership we have stopped kicking the can down the road, ...

A high-profile Arkansan is scheduled to speak to River Valley residents who are pushing back against state plans to build a ...

A trial, originally set for Sept. 2024, has been delayed to January 27, 2025, with a pre-trial hearing on Jan. 14, 2025. The ...

The Arkansas Board of Corrections voted to accept a land purchase in Franklin County, where a new prison is supposed to be built, with a caveat. The BOC accepted the property's lease for a one ...

The 29-year-old crashed into an officer’s patrol car during a chase — and dropped 2 kilos of cocaine during the same Franklin ...