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The Arkansas Department of Corrections (DOC), formerly the Arkansas Department of Correction, is the state law enforcement agency that oversees inmates and operates state prisons within the U.S. state of Arkansas. DOC consists of two divisions, the Arkansas Division of Corrections (ADC) and the Arkansas Division of Community Corrections (DCC ...
Mississippi State Penitentiary is in an unincorporated area in Sunflower County, Mississippi. 50. The prison which occupies 18,000 acres (7,300 ha) of land, has 53 buildings with a total of 922,966 square feet (85,746.3 m 2) of space. As of 2010 the institution can house 4,536 inmates. 1,109 people, as of 2010, work at MSP.
1st. Website. www.mississippicountyar.org. Mississippi County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,685. [1] There are two county seats, Blytheville and Osceola. [2] The county is named for the Mississippi River which borders the county to the east.
The method of controlling and working inmates at Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman was designed in 1901 to replace convict leasing. The case Gates v. Collier ended the flagrant abuse of inmates under the trusty system and other prison abuses that had continued essentially unchanged since the building of the Mississippi State ...
Varner Unit. The Varner Unit is a high-security state prison for men of the Arkansas Department of Correction in Varner, [1] Choctaw Township, unincorporated Lincoln County, Arkansas, United States. It is located along U.S. Highway 65, [2] near Grady, [3] and 28 miles (45 km) south of Pine Bluff. [2] The prison can house over 1,600 prisoners ...
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 ...
1,900 (310 in prison camp) Opened. 1997. Managed by. Federal Bureau of Prisons. Warden. Chad Garrett. The Federal Correctional Institution, Forrest City (FCI Forrest City) is a United States federal prison for male inmates in Arkansas. It is part of the Forrest City Federal Correctional Complex (FCC Forrest City) and is operated by the Federal ...
The Mississippi County Jail was a historic county jail building in Osceola, Arkansas. It was a three-story brick structure, six bays wide, with entrances at the outer two bays, which projected slightly and were set off from the central portion by brick pilasters and a decorative parapet at the roof line. The county built the jail in 1926; [2 ...