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The Arkansas Parole Board will begin holding hearings next month for inmates who lost their parole eligibility due to a yearslong misinterpretation of state law by the Arkansas Department of Corrections.

A Senate panel on Monday passed a bill intended to address a seven-year misinterpretation of state law by the Arkansas Department of Corrections that lawmakers said resulted in nearly 300 inmates convicted of residential burglary losing their eligibility for parole despite what they were told by attorneys and courts.

Max Hatfield, who has run a Christmas tree lot in Monument for 24 years, will use proceeds from sales this year and donations to his nonprofit ministry Friendship International to

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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.