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Arkansas State Police stated on August 21 that Worcester was first treated in a hospital, and then jailed in the Crawford County jail in Van Buren, Arkansas, having been charged with second-degree battery, resisting arrest, refusal to submit, possessing an instrument of crime, criminal trespass, criminal mischief, terroristic threatening and ...
Murton's co-authored 1969 book, Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal was the basis for the fictionalized 1980 film Brubaker starring Robert Redford. [26] In Holt v. Sarver, Judge Henley ruled several aspects of Arkansas's prison system unconstitutional and provided guidelines to get the system into compliance. The following ...
The prison first opened in 1902 and has a capacity of 1,725 inmates. Cummins housed Arkansas's male death row until 1986, when it was transferred first to the Tucker Maximum Security Unit . The State of Arkansas execution chamber is located in the Cummins Unit, adjacent to the location of the male death row, the Varner Unit . [ 10 ]
Dishman began serving his seven-year sentence in December 1984 at the state Department of Corrections' Benton Unit for theft and burglary convictions, according to the department's website. He ...
A federal inmate in Arkansas is set to serve an additional decade in prison after assaulting another inmate. Arkansas federal inmate sentenced to 10 more years after assaulting inmate Skip to main ...
Thomas O. Murton (March 15, 1928 – October 10, 1990) was a penologist best known for his wardenship of the prison farms of Arkansas.In 1969, he published an account of the endemic corruption there which created a national scandal, and which was popularized in a fictional version by the film Brubaker.
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Given 99 years each for six counts (one of first-degree kidnapping, two counts of first-degree rape and three counts of first-degree sodomy), 20 years for felony first-degree theft of property, and 10 more for felony first-degree bail jumping. Previously sentenced to 120 years for other rapes. [121] [122] He will be considered for parole in 2027.