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

A prison book ban that was set to go into effect for Arkansas inmates on Feb. 1 will not happen for now, Arkansas Department of Corrections spokesman Rand Champion confirmed Friday.

Inmates in Arkansas prisons will be able to get books and periodicals shipped to them -- for now. The Department of Corrections has suspended a ban on sending the materials into facilities, citing an ...

A state senator is calling for an investigation into what he called "fraud and corruption" adding up to millions of dollars ...

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 ...

In addition to banning books, Arkansas corrections officials would prohibit magazines and newspapers from being sent to inmates. It would be the strictest ban in the U.S.

With the Board of Corrections now filled with mostly her own appointees, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is likely to get her way ...

State Sen. Bryan King is challenging Arkansas’ prison project, citing cost disparities and planning issues, and pushing for ...

A proposed Arkansas Division of Correction policy prohibiting mailing books and other physical reading material to state ...

As of Feb. 3, 2026, there were 340 people listed as Clark County inmates by the Arkansas Department of Corrections website ...

Days after rejecting the same request, lawmakers signed off on millions of dollars in prison bed funding as overcrowding ...

Lawmakers will mull issues ranging from housing inmates with mental health needs to funding Wyoming’s beleaguered 911 system.