“You often need a martyr or someone very committed to act first,” Margaret Levi, a professor emerita of political science at ...

An Arkansas senator's proposal suggests relocating the state's planned 3,000-bed prison from land in Franklin County to ...

(KATV) — A Pine Bluff woman was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for lying to a grand jury, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas confirmed today. The verdict ...

Read full article: Feds to review security after inmate tried to shoot visitor Officials will begin assessing security protocols at federal prison camps across the U.S. after an inmate obtained a ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A new bill filed in the Arkansas Legislature proposes a major investment in the state's prison system, potentially directing up to $420 million toward the construction of a ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A $750 million appropriations bill for the planned Franklin County prison that has failed to pass in the Arkansas Senate for nearly two weeks is stalled. Senate President Pro ...

Senate President Pro Tempore Bart Hester, a supporter of the prison, said Thursday that he doesn't plan to hold a vote on the ...

William “Billy” Marshall, the relatively unknown head of the West Virginia corrections department, has been selected to lead the troubled federal Bureau of Prisons, a Trump administration choice that ...

Questions abound about how much the project will cost the state, who will work there, how it will impact local infrastructure and whether the state even needs a new prison at all. Arkansas’s ...

For years, families have complained of cruelty from the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) when their incarcerated loved ones become seriously ill or die. Now, legislation in Congress is attempting ...

Correctional officers are federal law enforcement officers with statutory powers of arrest and the ability to carry firearms. The stated mission of the Bureau of Prisons is to “keep federal ...