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Arkansas prison officials, in defiance of a state oversight board, will proceed with adding more than 600 temporary beds for inmates in existing facilities across the state’s prison system.

Although the state Department of Corrections is moving forward with plans to add 492 beds to three prisons, renovations are needed at two of those facilities before the beds are placed and inmates are transferred.

Although the state Department of Corrections is moving forward with plans to add 492 beds to three prisons, renovations are needed at two of those facilities before the beds are placed and inmates are transferred.

Billie Ray Clark was convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Brainerd in 2020.

An Arkansas man was charged with substance abuse and sexual indecency after an officer allegedly caught the individual performing lewd acts on a stuffed animal.

Marion Municipal Court was presented with the Clifford Skeen Award at the Ohio Justice Alliance for Community Corrections conference held Oct. 12.

Columbia County Circuit Clerk Angela Keith’s sentence Friday to the Arkansas Division of Community Correction has been postponed, allowing her to take care of personal tasks before her time in

Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration officials anticipate about 70 state executive branch employees with salaries funded by the federal government will be furloughed Monday in the event of a federal government shutdown, a spokesperson for the department said Friday.

Arkansas state governments executive branch Cabinet secretaries will be responsible for determining which programs must be suspended and which employees will be furloughed based on certain criteria in the event of a federal government shutdown, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a memo to the 15 secretaries.

The solar field will be built and operated by Entegrity on 35 acres in Phillips County, and should cut the 22,000-student school system from $4.5 million to $7 million over the next 25 years.