A member of the Arkansas Board of Corrections challenged legislators about the need for a new 3,000-bed prison and offered ...

Arkansas Board of Corrections member Lee Watson has sent an email to legislators and other members of the BOC, opposing the proposed 3,000-bed prison for the state and calling for a more prudent path ...

Arkansas doesn't need a 3,000-bed prison, a member of the state Board of Corrections wrote in an email sent to lawmakers ...

The Arkansas Department of Corrections admonished prison designer Vanir about charging the state for alcohol, upgrades on ...

Two Arkansas prison employees have been fired after an inmate known as the "Devil in the Ozarks" escaped in May. Corrections officials said Thursday that the employees violated policies, ...

A member of the Arkansas Board of Corrections told lawmakers in a letter that the state needs a new prison, but something ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An email from Arkansas Board of Corrections (BOC) member Lee Watson to legislators calls for a different ...

The employees unwittingly helped Grant Hardin, a former police chief, walk out of a prison in May, dressed in a fake law ...

The fallout continues after the escape of convicted killer grant hardin—an incident that sparked a 12-day manhunt and left ...

Officials said a kitchen supervisor left Grant Hardin alone on a loading dock and a tower guard let him out the gates.

A Mansfield man was sentenced to 25 years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections last week after he pleaded guilty in the ...

A smaller prison in western or NW Arkansas and completion of a planned addition in Calico Rock would be better, Lee Watson ...