The Board of Corrections voted Monday to accept the Arkansas attorney general’s settlement offers requiring the panel to say ...

HOT SPRING COUNTY, Ark. – Officials handed inmate Lloyd Byrd his GED degree in an October 2025 ceremony, marking the milestone of a 50-year effort. Department of Corrections officials said Byrd became ...

The Arkansas Board of Corrections voted 4-3 to settle a multi-year lawsuit with the state Monday. The settlement involved two ...

The legal battle between the Arkansas Board of Corrections and the governor saw a significant reversal Monday, when the board ...

GOULD, Arkansas — A spokesperson with the Arkansas Department of Corrections (DOC) identified the inmate who died after an accident involving a "piece of machinery" at the Cummins Unit in Gould on ...

Arkansas doesn't have a legal way to bring someone back to the state to serve prison time if they are released by authorities elsewhere, but Tuesday the Board of Corrections gave themselves the power ...

Selected Arkansas corrections officers will be allowed to question immigration detainees, execute warrants, issue immigration detainers and use the Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs ...

The Cummins-Varner Wastewater Treatment Plant is old, deteriorating and overdue for an upgrade or replacement. Credit: Photo courtesy of the Department of Corrections, graphic by Ainsley ...

The Arkansas Department of Corrections at a Sept. 2, 2025 meeting Credit: Brian Chilson A prison book ban that was set to go into effect for Arkansas inmates on Feb. 1 will not happen for now, ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Arkansas corrections officers can now perform some of the functions of ICE agents, after the state's Department of Corrections entered into a memorandum of agreement with the ...

Arkansas Department of Corrections officers on Tuesday shot and killed a suspect in a fatal shooting west of Batesville whom ...