The Arkansas Board of Corrections unanimously voted Friday to rename the North Central Unit in Calico Rock in honor of outgoing Chairman Benny Magness and to ban externally purchased books, magazines ...

Starting Feb. 1, inmates in Arkansas prisons will no longer be allowed to receive books or magazines from outside sources, ...

Ruby Welch assists a student at Arkansas Beauty School in Little Rock on Dec. 10, 2025. Welch is one of the many formerly incarcerated Arkansans who stays tied to the criminal justice system after ...

As the clock winds down on 2025, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders is setting the stage for the year ahead with a series of new appointments, including significan ...

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – State police are searching for a man they said fled from law enforcement after a pursuit ended in North Little Rock on Sunday. Arkansas State Police officials said troopers ...

Across the country this year, fugitives on the run turned quiet neighborhoods, rural towns and college campuses into crime scenes. Five major manhunts, each chaotic in its own way, sent police ...

The Arkansas Department of Corrections headquarters in North Little Rock on Dec. 14, 2025. (Photo by Tess Vrbin/Arkansas Advocate) Violet White’s experience in the Arkansas Department of Corrections ...

A spokesperson for the Arkansas Department of Corrections confirmed Monday that Joseph Schwartz, a fraudster who operated a multi-state nursing home chain called Skyline before his felony convictions, ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said Thursday evening that a man who owed prison time to the state has been ordered by the court to serve that time. President Donald Trump ...