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A member of the Arkansas Board of Corrections challenged legislators about the need for a new 3,000-bed prison and offered ...
An email from Arkansas Board of Corrections (BOC) member Lee Watson to legislators calls for a different path to solving the ...
Officials said a kitchen supervisor left Grant Hardin alone on a loading dock and a tower guard let him out the gates.
Grant Hardin was let out of a secure gate at the North Central Unit near Calico Rock while dressed in a makeshift uniform.
Skeptical Arkansas lawmakers seemed unwilling to accept Thursday that the escape of a convicted murderer and rapist was the ...
ARKANSAS LAWMAKERS ARE GETTING THE CHANCE TO ASK THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS ABOUT THEIR INVESTIGATION INTO HOW GRANT HARDIN ESCAPED FROM THE CALICO ROCK PRISON ON MAY 25. GRANT HARDIN IS A FORMER ...
Two Arkansas Department of Corrections employees were fired following an investigation into inmate Grant Hardin’s escape from the North Central Unit in Calico Rock in May, where he wore a ...
The department's director, Dexter Payne, told the Arkansas Board of Corrections at a meeting June 10 that someone "didn't do his job" in allowing Hardin to leave the facility.
A smaller prison in western or NW Arkansas and completion of a planned addition in Calico Rock would be better, Lee Watson ...