Arkansas Prisons

Members of the Arkansas Senate rejected a $750 million appropriations bill for a new state prison for a fifth time on Tuesday.

The Arkansas Department of Corrections relayed a new maximum cost estimate of $825 million on March 3.

Members of the Joint Budget Committee rejected a request from Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to allow a bill to be drafted to dedicate $330 million dollars for the new facility.

Attorney General Tim Griffin is offering input on what he would like to see in a criminal justicereform bill for the Arkansas Legislature.

Gov. Hutchinson's 498 prison bed expansion passed the Arkansas Legislature this week. The project stirred controversy and led to a verbal and physical clash between protestors and Capitol police.

Gov. Hutchinson's 498 prison bed expansion passed the Arkansas Legislature this week. The project stirred controversy and led to a verbal and physical clash between protestors and Capitol police.

This weekend, Zacharay Crow, with DecArcerate, will speak twice in Fayetteville about the state and prisons. Saturday night’s lecture, “Burn it Down: The…

At the top of our show today: slowly the number of people hospitalized in Arkansas with COVID-19 is declining, Arkansas' prison population is high, and…

There have been very few Circuit Court jury trials held across Arkansas in the last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. While there have been brief…

It’s been nearly a year since most Arkansas inmates have been permitted to have in-person visitation. That will change this weekend, as the Department of…