The Arkansas Department of Corrections has temporarily suspended a rule that would have prohibited inmates from receiving ...

The board that runs Arkansas’ prison and parole systems has its first new chairman in two decades, and a majority appointed ...

The private attorney fired by the Arkansas Board of Corrections said the panel still owes him and his firm hundreds of ...

Inmates in Arkansas prisons will be able to get books and periodicals shipped to them -- for now. The Department of ...

A 20-year-old state Department of Corrections officer died in a crash last week not far from the Lincoln County prison where ...

A lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas alleges that the state's parole revocation proceedings are unconstitutional, denying inmates their right to due ...

Joseph Schwartz was released from the Cummins Unit Tuesday after the Arkansas Post-Prison Transfer Board granted him parole last week.

A 37-year-old man has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison after he was convicted of possession with intent to ...

A Paris business owner who opposes a 3,000-bed prison project won the Republican Party’s nomination in a special runoff for ...

A 42-year-old Arkansas man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for meth and cocaine possession with the intent to ...

20-year-old Corporal Kajayla Hill, an officer with the Arkansas Department of Corrections, was killed in a crash outside the ...

Officials stated that an officer with the Arkansas Department of Corrections died in a car crash on Thursday.