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In 1978 a new death chamber opened in Cummins, so Tucker was no longer the place of execution in Arkansas. [5] In 1986 male death row inmates were moved to the Maximum Security Unit. [12] On August 22, 2003, all 39 of the state's death row inmates, all of them male, were moved to the Supermax at the Varner Unit. [13]
In 1993, Arkansas created the Department of Community Punishment (DCP), which would evolve into the DCC. Arkansas briefly contracted with a private prison between 1998 and 2001, but inmate conditions were unsafe and unsanitary and United States Department of Justice ruled Arkansas' private prison unconstitutional in 2003.
The agency is led by the Arkansas County Sheriff, an official elected by countywide vote every four years. Police departments in Stuttgart, DeWitt, Humphrey, Gillett, and Almyra provide law enforcement in their respective jurisdictions, with St. Charles contracting with the Arkansas County Sheriff's Office for law enforcement services.
The Arkansas General Assembly established the Arkansas History Commission through the Act of 1905 signed by Governor Jeff Davis on April 27. [2] Aligned with Department of Parks and Tourism since 1971, it was transferred to the Department of Arkansas Heritage on July 1, 2016, and renamed Arkansas State Archives. [3]
The sheriff’s office is offering a reward of $2,500 per escaped inmate for any information leading up to the apprehension and return to custody of Roush and Bryant, it said in a release. As of 6 ...
Cummins Unit houses the State of Arkansas execution chamber. Male death row inmates are located at the Arkansas Department of Correction Varner Unit's Supermax, while the executions are performed at the Cummins Unit, adjacent to Varner. [12] The female death row is located at the McPherson Unit. In 1999 the female death row was newly ...
Former U.S. Rep. Tommy Robinson, who gained notoriety as an Arkansas sheriff for tactics that included chaining inmates outside a state prison to protest overcrowding, has died. Robinson died at a ...
People who have served as Sheriff in the U.S. state of Arkansas Pages in category "Arkansas sheriffs" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.