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From mental health to physical well-being, states are required to care for those in their custody. Activists and some officials say Arkansas fails horribly.

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While the debate rages over how many inmates Arkansas locks up, some cities and counties are eyeing an economic windfall from prison expansion.

A Springdale man was sentenced Thursday to 330 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release and ordered to pay $10,000 in fines on drug and firearms charges, according to a release from the U.S. Attorneys Office.

BENTONVILLE -- A convicted killer and rapist on death row will have to wait longer for a judge to determine whether he received ineffective legal representation at his trial for raping and killing a Bentonville girl.