Pine Bluff Unit News Today

The Arkansas State Police and the Arkansas Department of Corrections are investigating the suspected suicide of an inmate at the Pine Bluff Unit of the state prison system Tuesday, a Wednesday news release from the Corrections Department stated.

A Malvern man has been sentenced to 30 years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections after he pleaded guilty to rape of a minor in the the 13th Judicial District of Arkansas.

After a three-year pause due to covid-19, the Kairos Prison Ministry of Arkansas this week resumed its semi-annual weekend retreat for residents of the Pine Bluff Unit of the Arkansas Department of Corrections.

A Lakeview man who has been in and out of trouble since 2016 was sentenced to 16 years in prison during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Wednesday.

Charges against a man for participating in the murder of then 20-year-old Tyler Pickett of Mountain Home in late June 2019 were dropped during a session of

A jury trial for one of two men charged with the late June 2019 murder of then 20-year-old Tyler Wade Pickett of Mountain Home was cancelled Monday and 29-year

A man who faced charges of trying to run from law enforcement in mid-December 2019 and again in late-November 2020 made an appearance in Baxter County Circuit

Photo: Robert Dean Penny A man who pled guilty to shooting and killing his landlord is continuing his efforts to have his prison sentence reduced. Sixty-three

Robert Dean Penny A man charged in the shooting death of his landlord entered a guilty plea to a second degree murder charge and was sentenced to 25 years in prison during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday. Sixty-three-year-old Robert Dean Penny was initially charged with first-degree murder in early December 2017. It was alleged Penny killed 71-year-old Chester Hornowski. Penny’s sentence on the murder charge will run concurrent with time he is spending in prison on earlier c...