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An Arkansas man who has spent the past 25 years on death row for the 1996 killing of a prison guard cannot be executed by the state after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the state's appeal of a federal court ruling setting aside his death sentence.

An Arkansas man who has spent the past 25 years on death row for the 1996 killing of a prison guard cannot be executed by the state after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the state's appeal of a federal court ruling setting aside his death sentence.

(Devontae Sipps) A jury trial set Tuesday for a 22-year-old Mountain Home man charged with administering a savage beating to another jail inmate was made

A 28-year-old Midway man, who screamed obscenities and fought with deputies at the court complex in both May and July last year has been denied parole. Tyler

An inmate at the Grimes Unit in Newport died Tuesday, according to the Arkansas Department of Corrections.

An inmate at the Grimes Unit in Newport died Tuesday, according to the Arkansas Department of Corrections.

A routine legislative budget hearing Wednesday led to questions about firearms inventory at the Department of Corrections, because of a state audit that revealed that an employee of the prison system sold almost 30,000 rounds of revolver ammunition without anyone's knowledge.

A routine legislative budget hearing Wednesday led to questions about firearms inventory at the Department of Corrections, because of a state audit that revealed that an employee of the prison system sold almost 30,000 rounds of revolver ammunition without anyone's knowledge.

Photo: Harold Saeler A Marion County man sentenced to 10 years in the Arkansas Department of Correction in 2020 is facing a new charge in Baxter County.

UPDATE: Report: Arkansas prisons resume medical co-pays, one of only three states to do so The Prison Policy Project calls out Arkansasfor being one of three states, along with Idaho and Minnesota, that have resumed co-pays for prisoners seeking medical treatment. They had been suspended in March on account of the pandemic, which has swept through the prison system. Despite a record number of new COVID-19 cases in prisons this month, some state departments of correction are already starting ...