Inmate Carolyn Arnett approached a pastor at the all-women's McPherson Unit prison with something she wanted to get off her ...

A hearing in Grant Hardin's criminal case for escaping from a north Arkansas prison earlier this year that was originally ...

A newly signed agreement between the Arkansas Department of Corrections and the federal government will allow select ...

Arkansas corrections officers can now perform some of the functions of ICE agents, after the state's Department of Corrections entered into a memorandum of agre ...

The Cummins-Varner Wastewater Treatment Plant is old, deteriorating and overdue for an upgrade or replacement. Credit: Photo courtesy of the Department of Corrections, graphic by Ainsley ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A Little Rock man will be spending the rest of his life in prison after he gave a man fentanyl pills that led to his death. Officials with the United States Attorney's Eastern ...

The Arkansas State Penitentiary opened in 1841 in Little Rock and served as the state's main penal institution until it was moved in 1899 to allow for the construction of the State Capitol at the same ...

On Monday, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin asked the court to order Joseph Schwartz to the Ouachita River Correctional ...

Arkansas officials seek to have Joseph Schwartz serve remaining 31 days on state charges after Trump pardoned him in federal ...

Attorney General Tim Griffin has asked a judge to send Joseph Schwartz, a former nursing home operator pardoned by President ...

A former owner of several Arkansas nursing homes who was pardoned by President Trump last month will reportedly still have to ...

Selected Arkansas corrections officers will be allowed to question immigration detainees, execute warrants, issue immigration detainers and use the Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs ...