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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

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.

From meals to showers to visitors, this is what life is like on Florida's death row for convicted killer Wade Wilson.

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

One of the groups, decARcerate, has circulated an online petition against the ban. The group said the policy would be the ...

New restrictions on sending physical books, magazines and other reading materials to people incarcerated in Arkansas state ...