Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In 1899, the penitentiary site was selected for the new Arkansas State Capitol, which supplanted the Old State House. [10] In the interim, Arkansas leased many convicts to companies, including the Arkansas Brick Manufacturing Company, for as long as ten years in an effort to house them while a new prison was built. [11]
From the source report: "This graph shows the number of people in state prisons, local jails, federal prisons, and other systems of confinement from each U.S. state and territory per 100,000 people in that state or territory and the incarceration rate per 100,000 in all countries with a total population of at least 500,000." [26]
Of the total state and federal prison population, 8% or 96,370 people are incarcerated in private prisons. An additional 2.9 million people are on probation, and over 800,000 people are on parole. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] At year-end 2021, 1,000,000 people were incarcerated in state prisons; 157,000 people were incarcerated in federal prisons; and 636,000 ...
The United States Census Bureau estimates that the population of Arkansas was 3,045,637 on July 1, 2022, a 1.13% increase since the 2020 United States Census [2]. As of 2022, Arkansas had an estimated population of 3,045,637, [3] which is an increase of 11,835, or 0.2%, from the prior year and an increase of 62,286, or 2.14%, since the year 2010.
What is 'Unlocked: A Jail Experiment' about? The series follows a group of inmates at Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility in Little Rock, Arkansas as they take part in a social experiment.
McPherson Unit is a prison for women of the Arkansas Department of Corrections, located in Newport, Arkansas, off Arkansas Highway 384, 4 miles (6.4 km) east of central Newport. Established in 1998, [1] the prison houses the state's death row for women. [2] The unit houses a campus of the Riverside Vocational Technical School. [3]
Local law enforcement officers and state troopers arrested Steven Dishman, 60, at a home in Springdale, Arkansas, about 200 miles northwest of Little Rock, Arkansas, state police spokesman Bill ...
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."