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'1994 crime law'

Jury finds Arron Lewis guilty of capital murder and kidnapping in the death of Beverly Carter

After deliberating for about an hour this afternoon, a jury found Arron Lewis guilty of capital murder and kidnapping in the death of real estate agent Beverly Carter.
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Murder trial begins with defense casting blame on accused's wife

A standing-room only crowd was on hand for opening statements today in the murder trial of Arron Lewis, accused of the September 2014 abduction and murder of real estate agent Beverly Carter.
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One wounded in bank branch robbery on Highway 10

The Little Rock police report a man with a gun robbed the Bank of America branch at 14519 Cantrell Road in far northwest Little Rock earlier this afternoon. A man was wounded.

Carjacking leads to chase and arrest near Russellville and death

A carjacking early this morning on U.S. Highway 64 near Russellville led to a police chase, wreck and arrest of a suspect in the robbery and another person dead of wreck injuries.
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Power grid vandal Jason Woodring sentenced to 15 years

Jacksonville resident Jason Woodring, 38, whose meth and Nostradamus-inspired attacks on the Arkansas power grid I wrote about in a cover story last year, was sentenced to 15 years in prison yesterday, having plead guilty in March to destruction of an energy facility, setting fire to a power station, using fire to commit a felony and possession of firearms, ammunition and drugs. He will also be required to pay $4,792,224.06 to Entergy and $48,729.39 to First Electric Cooperative for damage to various downed power lines in 2013.

Report: diverting mentally ill criminals away from jails and prisons could save state $140 million per year

The Arkansas Public Policy Panel released a report today calling for the state to invest in mental-health crisis centers, where criminal offenders with mental health issues would get treatment, rather than simply being incarcerated.
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Arkansas's prison population continues to climb

Arkansas's prison growth is outpacing the national average, a consultant told the Arkansas Legislative Criminal Justice Oversight Task Force today. Under a best-case scenario projection, the state Department of Correction's population will top 20,000 in 2017.

Recommended: Radley Balko on criminal justice

Recommended morning read from the Washington Post's Radley Balko: "This isn’t 1968. Baltimore isn’t Watts. And Hillary Clinton isn’t Michael Dukakis."
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Bill Clinton supports Hillary Clinton's comments on "mass incarceration," critiques his 1994 crime law

A week after Hillary Clinton criticized "mass incarceration," Bill Clinton suggests that his 1994 crime law "needs to be changed."

In this Arkansas Times: Crime, punishment of women and civil rights progress

Check out this week's print Arkansas Times (also on-line) for stories about a sensational murder case; all the thigns wrong about the legislature's anti-abortion legislation, and Max Brantley's column about progress — and lack of same — for gay people and women in Arkansas.
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Jonesboro police kill man armed with machete

KAIT-8 reports that a 31-year-old white man being sought on felony charges was fatally shot by Jonesboro police Tuesday night after striking an officer on the arm with a machete.

Gov. Hutchinson talks parole reform, re-entry programs at PuCo Bar Assoc. meeting

Gov. Asa Hutchinson's plan to fix sentencing, prisons and parole was on the menu at today's Pulaski County Bar Association luncheon at the Clinton Presidential Center, with Hutchinson's laying out a three-pronged approach which he says will at least forestall the need for a new $100 million prison by changing the behavior of parolees in order to help prevent recidivism and help them succeed at re-entering society.
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