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With a 3-2 vote, the Arkansas Board of Corrections suspended Department of Corrections Secretary Joe Profiri with pay during a special meeting Thursday afternoon.
Attorney General Tim Griffin accused the state Board of Corrections of violating state law twice at a meeting last week in which it went into executive session and then voted to hire outside counsel.
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.
A resolution to declare a vacancy in the Justice of the Peace District 12 position failed 8-2 with three abstentions at the Pope County Quorum Court's monthly meeting Thursday night.