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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 ...
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 ...
Barbara A. Ester Unit is a correctional facility of the Arkansas Department of Correction (ADC), located in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It is scheduled to have a capacity of 580 prisoners, and it is the first prison in the ADC dedicated to the re-entry of prisoners into society. [1] In addition to prisoners who are to be released within six months ...
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 ...
A Franklin County Sheriff's deputy resigned in January after an adult female inmate alleged that he sexually assaulted her, prompting an internal investigation.. Andrew Litteral, 39, a deputy ...
Aerial view of the Cummins and Varner units, U.S. Geological Survey, February 28, 2001 Topographic map of the Cummins Unit, U.S. Geological Survey, July 1, 1984. The Cummins Unit (formerly known as Cummins State Farm) is an Arkansas Department of Corrections prison in unincorporated Lincoln County, Arkansas, United States, [3] [4] in the Arkansas Delta region. [5]
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 ...