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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 ...
This is a list of law enforcement officers convicted for an on-duty killing in the United States.The listing documents the date the incident resulting in conviction occurred, the date the officer(s) was convicted, the name of the officer(s), and a brief description of the original occurrence making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or ...
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 ...
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 ...
In history, the prison housed the state's white convicts. [7] In addition the prison housed some black female prisoners. [5] In 1967 four men escaped from the unit and abandoned a vehicle used in the escape in Fort Scott, Kansas. [8] The Arkansas prison scandal occurred in the unit and involved the "Tucker Telephone."
Jail records show that he was booked on charges of second-degree assault of a police officer, third-degree criminal mischief, reckless driving and disregarding signals from officers directing traffic.
At one time the State of Arkansas housed all young male offenders in the state prison system in Varner. While this was the case, Correction Officers and prisoners nicknamed the facility the "Gladiator School." [10] On Friday August 22, 2003, all 39 Arkansas death row inmates were moved from the Maximum Security Unit to the Supermax at the ...
In 2008, there were 124,224 crimes reported in Arkansas, including 162 murders, 109,752 property crimes, and 1,425 rapes. [1] Since then, violent crime has increased while property crime has decreased.