Arkansas Board of Corrections requests Gov, Sanders to activate National Guard for assistance
The Arkansas Board of Corrections is now throwing the ball into the governor’s court to help with staffing issues.
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The Arkansas Board of Corrections is now throwing the ball into the governor’s court to help with staffing issues.
The head of the Arkansas prisons board has asked Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to activate 138 National Guard members to help staff short-handed prisons.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has called for the Arkansas Board of Corrections chairman to resign following a request from the board to help with staffing issues in prisons.
Basdeo Debideen, who was possibly this country’s longest serving convict, yesterday walked out of the Claxton Bay Correctional Facility and into a house at Filtration Plant Road, Guapo, Point Fortin.
Attorney General Tim Griffin filed a motion on Monday seeking reconsideration of a Pulaski County circuit judge's temporary restraining order that blocked Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders from bypassing the state Board of Corrections' Constitutional authority and adding hundreds of beds at several state prisons. He also filed motions to disqualify the board's legal counsel and to dismiss the case entirely.