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'Arkansas prisons'

Asa and the new legislative leadership on taxes and prisons

At an AP forum this afternoon, Asa Hutchinson, Senate President Pro Tem Jonathan Dismang and House Speaker Jeremy Gillam spoke to reporters about issues in the upcoming session, including tax cuts and prison reform.
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Open line and video headlines; Also, lawsuit against state board executive and a religious claim for a beard in prison

Here's the Thursday open line and video news summary. Also: Suit against former state agency head; prison official found telling untruth in lawsuit over beards in prison.
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License tag fee would likely have to jump $2.50-$3 to pay for prison expansion, research finds

A new prison could cost $7 to $8 million in financing costs just to build. And it would be built in the face of statistics that indicate more prisons do little to reduce the crime rate.

Lack of leadership, Oaklawn courtship: legislative folly

It used to be ritual that the governor addressed lawmakers at the end of each regular and emergency session to reassure them that Arkansans were in their debt for again protecting the state from the ravages of fate.
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Getting tough on crime gets tough on taxpayers

Tougher policies on sentencing of minor criminals and dealing with parole violators are filling county and state lockups to overflowing. Now the politicians are complaining. But will they, and their constituents, pay to do anything about it?

BBC revisits the dark world of the old Arkansas prison system

Thanks to KUAR's Michael Hibblen for a good tip on some good broadcasting: "Johnny Cash and the Forgotten Prison Blues" airs at 2:05 p.m. today on BBC World Service.
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A modest proposal on prisons

Blog regular Elwood leads the letters page in the Democrat-Gazette today with a modest little idea on prisons — assess a local charge for the cost of every prisoner sent to state prison.

A mug’s game: when activists are urged to take “the high road”

It’s always sort of amazing what we find of value when it occurs in foreign lands and we decry when it happens here on our own shores.
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Beebe announces prison study

Good timing. I wrote the other day that something was wrong with a state justice system where emergency powers had been routinely invoked for 12 years to allow early release of state prison inmates, not to mention the chronic backup of state offenders in county jails.
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