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Arkansas’ prison board and state leaders, despite an ongoing public dispute, agree on one thing: the state needs a new prison; but progress on that project has inched along.

A Central Arkansas judge granted the state prison board’s request for a temporary restraining order late Friday afternoon, directing Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her corrections chief to stop operating

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.

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.

The Arkansas Board of Corrections rejected a request to expand prison capacity this month because of severe staffing shortages and existing crowding, board Chairman Benny Magness says in a November

Arkansas ended the fiscal year last week with a $1.161 billion budget surplus, the second largest in state history, finance officials announced Wednesday.