State Prisoners Serve Time in County Jails as Valuable Labor Force

KUAF | By Jacqueline Froelich

Published October 25, 2015 at 10:43 AM CDT

Hundreds of Arkansas prison inmates, under a state statute, are able to serve out their sentences in local county and city jails as a skilled labor force. We go inside the Carroll County Detention Center to meet several of them.

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