Video: Arkansas prison appropriation bill for Franklin County fails in Senate UPDATE: The bill failed a third time in a ...

The state prisons board on Thursday approved sending out a request for general contractors to submit proposals to build a new ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Board of Corrections (BOC) met on April 3 to discuss the ongoing Franklin County prison ...

As the clock ticks down on the 2025 legislative Ssession, Republicans in favor of building a new prison in western Arkansas ...

The Arkansas Department of Corrections announced Bruce Ward died of natural causes around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 1.

State legislatures are grappling with how to fund new prisons that Republican governors say are needed to ease overcrowding.

A bill that would have appropriated up to $750 million for a prison in Franklin County failed in the Arkansas Senate on ...

Bruce Ward, who was given a death sentence for the murder of 18-year-old Rebecca Doss in 1990, has died while in an Arkansas ...

Appropriation bills require a three-fourths vote of both chambers of the Legislature for passage, meaning 27 votes were ...