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An inmate at the Grimes Unit in Newport died Tuesday, according to the Arkansas Department of Corrections.

A routine legislative budget hearing Wednesday led to questions about firearms inventory at the Department of Corrections, because of a state audit that revealed that an employee of the prison system sold almost 30,000 rounds of revolver ammunition without anyone's knowledge.

A routine legislative budget hearing Wednesday led to questions about firearms inventory at the Department of Corrections, because of a state audit that revealed that an employee of the prison system sold almost 30,000 rounds of revolver ammunition without anyone's knowledge.

Photo: Harold Saeler A Marion County man sentenced to 10 years in the Arkansas Department of Correction in 2020 is facing a new charge in Baxter County.

UPDATE: Report: Arkansas prisons resume medical co-pays, one of only three states to do so The Prison Policy Project calls out Arkansasfor being one of three states, along with Idaho and Minnesota, that have resumed co-pays for prisoners seeking medical treatment. They had been suspended in March on account of the pandemic, which has swept through the prison system. Despite a record number of new COVID-19 cases in prisons this month, some state departments of correction are already starting to roll back necessary suspensions of medical co-pays. Prior to the pandemic, most prison systems ch...