Arkansas Correction Department Archives

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Tag: Arkansas Correction Department

Private prison contractor to pay $177,000 for pepper-spraying

Private prison project encounters questions in Drew and Bradley counties

Experts say drugs don’t stop pain in Arkansas executions

Islamic inmate sues Arkansas prisons over combined religious service

A photo project on prison farm life in Arkansas and Texas. Those were the days.

Legislature takes up prison drug deaths

Three inmates die at Varner; illicit drugs suspected

Prisoner provides video of Varner Unit disturbance

Hutchinson calls for action on inmate violence

Among the last words from Kenneth Williams: ‘Finger Lickin’ Good Fried Chicken’