LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas lawmakers voted against a $750 million spending bill for the Franklin County prison project on ...

The Arkansas Senate on Tuesday rejected a $750 million appropriation bill to support construction of a 3,000-bed prison in ...

A bill that would grant $750 million in spending for costs for a new prison in Franklin County fell short of clearing the ...

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.

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

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 ...

A legislative committee on Thursday approved a $750 million appropriation bill for the cost of constructing a new 3,000-bed prison in western Arkansas, three weeks after rejecting a request for ...

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 ...