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Attorney General Tim Griffin filed a motion on Monday seeking reconsideration of a Pulaski County circuit judges temporary restraining order that blocked Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders from bypassing the state Board of Corrections Constitutional authority and adding hundreds of beds at several state prisons. He also filed motions to disqualify the boards legal counsel and to dismiss the case entirely.

Attorney General Tim Griffin filed a motion on Monday seeking reconsideration of a Pulaski County circuit judges temporary restraining order that blocked Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders from bypassing the state Board of Corrections Constitutional authority and adding hundreds of beds at several state prisons. He also filed motions to disqualify the boards legal counsel and to dismiss the case entirely.

Attorney General Tim Griffin filed a motion on Monday seeking reconsideration of a Pulaski County circuit judges temporary restraining order that blocked Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders from bypassing the state Board of Corrections constitutional authority and adding hundreds of beds at several state prisons. He also filed motions to disqualify the boards legal counsel and to dismiss the case entirely.

Attorney General Tim Griffin filed a motion on Monday seeking reconsideration of a Pulaski County circuit judges temporary restraining order that blocked Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders from bypassing the state Board of Corrections constitutional authority and adding hundreds of beds at several state prisons. He also filed motions to disqualify the boards legal counsel and to dismiss the case entirely.

An auditor last week warned that five Arkansas prisons lack the staff and infrastructure to handle hundreds of additional inmates under a controversial expansion plan.

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.

The Arkansas Board of Corrections on Friday hired an outside attorney to represent it in employment matters, a step a board member said was taken in response to criticism of

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Friday called for the the state Board of Corrections to hold an “emergency meeting” after it rejected part of a request to expand capacity at state prisons.

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Friday called for the the state Board of Corrections to hold an “emergency meeting” after it rejected part of a request to expand capacity at state prisons.