The bill to allocate funding for a new 3,000-bed prison failed in an 18-13 vote after being resubmitted in the Senate on ...

A bill that would grant $750 million in spending authority for the Arkansas Department of Corrections failed in the Arkansas ...

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.

The bill failed Tuesday with a vote of 19-10 and failed again Wednesday with a vote of 18-13. The Senate will hear it again on Thursday.

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

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 ...

The Senate on Tuesday, April 1, 2025 rejected a $750 million appropriation bill to support construction of a 3,000-bed prison ...

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 ...

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 ...