The court ruled in favor of the Arkansas Board of Corrections, striking down laws that aimed to shift control of the ...

The Board of Corrections has supervisory authority over the Secretary of Corrections and directors of the Department of ...

GOULD, Ark. – Officials with the Arkansas Department of Corrections confirmed on Thursday that an inmate at the Varner Unit had been shot. The inmate, whose name officials did not disclose, was on ...

An inmate transferred from the Arkansas Department of Corrections to a federal facility in West Virginia earlier this year ...

The Arkansas Department of Corrections (DOC) confirmed that an inmate was shot by an officer after allegedly attempting to escape early Thursday. According to the DOC, the incident happened during the ...

Damien Ford produced something akin to a legal unicorn. Ford, who is housed at the East Arkansas Region Unit prison in Marianna, won $5,001 in damages in a civil rights lawsuit against a state ...

As of Nov. 1, 2025, there were 336 people listed as Clark County inmates by the Arkansas Department of Corrections website ...

Arkansas Department of Corrections Chief Legal Officer Tawnie Rowell discusses a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over violations of federal disability law on Sept. 2, 2025. (Photo by ...

The Arkansas Board of Corrections has supervisory authority over the Secretary of Corrections and directors of the Department of Corrections, a Pulaski County circuit judge ruled Friday. Judge ...