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Sarver II, 309 F. Supp. 362 (E.D. Ark.), Judge Henley ruled the entire Arkansas prison system unconstitutional and ordered the State Correction Board to devise a plan of action. In that same case in 1971, Judge Henley enjoined the Arkansas prison from preventing the inmates' access to court and from inflicting cruel and unusual punishment upon ...
In 1974 male death row inmates, previously at the Tucker Unit, were moved to the Cummins Unit. [33] In 1986 male death row inmates were moved to the Maximum Security Unit. [33] On Friday August 22, 2003, all 39 Arkansas death row inmates, all of them male, were moved to the Supermax at the Varner Unit. [40]
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]
Finney, 437 U.S. 678 (1978), is a landmark Supreme Court case against the Arkansas Department of Correction. The litigation lasted almost a decade, from 1969 through 1978. It was the first successful lawsuit filed by an inmate against a correctional institution. The case also clarified the Arkansas prison system's unacceptable punitive measures.
A group of prisoners in Arkansas is suing the Washington County Detention Center, its sheriff and its physician, alleging that The post Arkansas inmates sue jail alleging ivermectin ‘experiment ...
One night in July 2012, a juvenile inmate at Thompson Academy was lining up with other boys after taking a shower when he realized that the boxer shorts he had been issued were too big. According to a police report and an interview with the inmate’s mother, the boy asked a female staff member if he could have another pair. She said no.
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]
Five former inmates at an Arkansas county jail have settled their lawsuit against a doctor who they said gave them the antiparasitic drug ivermectin to fight COVID-19 without their consent. A ...