A bill to allocate $750 million to fund construction of a 3,000-bed prison in Franklin County failed on the Senate floor on ...

When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the past with men working in the heat on former slave plantations.

There’s language in the Arkansas Constitution that has ... hoping to change the prison system, including the free labor."I have people that are still incarcerated that write to me all the ...

ARKADELPHIA, Arkansas — More than 900 acres overlooking the Ouachita River could eventually become the site of a 5,000-bed ...

CHARLESTON -- A proposed new prison construction fund is now on Arkansas legislative committee agendas at $1 billion, reflecting a... Penny Weaver is an award-winning journalist who covers crime ...

Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders wrote an op-ed urging legislators to fund the planned Franklin County prison, declaring that “enough is enough” when it comes to Arkansas’ prison ...

On March 5, 44-year-old Carlos Sigears was sentenced to serve an extra 90 years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections. He had already been sentenced to life in prison plus 160 years during his ...

Jackson went on to photograph prisoners working in Arkansas prisons in the 1970s ... how a spiderweb of brands and products tied to prison labor ends up in grocery stores and ultimately in ...