Hundreds ofArkansas 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.
State Prisoners Serve Time in County Jails as Valuable Labor Force
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Jacqueline Froelich