Lawyers who sued a judge in Benton County over whether criminal defendants should be provided a lawyer at first appearance and bond hearings want to add more defendants.
The Arkansas Department of Corrections admitted during a legislative committee meeting Monday to a seven-year mistake in interpreting Arkansas law, explaining that is why two inmates who were released in June were re-incarcerated days later and why nearly 300 inmates are learning they will have to serve their entire sentence with no parole, despite what they were told at the time of their plea agreements.
Mikayla Mynk (Photo courtesy of Arkansas Department of Correction) Parole has been denied for one of three people sent to prison after pleading guilty to taking
A state effort to bolster the ranks of public defenders and prosecutors has offered little relief to Pulaski County courts burdened by backlogs of felony cases, according to a circuit court judge.