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Robinson's tenure was one of non-stop controversies. In early 1981, in order to relieve jail overcrowding he ordered a group of state prisoners being held at the Pulaski County Jail to be taken to the state prison at Pine Bluff. Robinson left the prisoners chained to the (front gate of the prison) when the warden refused to accept them.
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 ...
This is a list of lists of U.S. state prisons (2010) (not including federal prisons or county jails in the United States or prisons in U.S. territories): US State Prisons Per State Alabama
A new Netflix documentary series shows what happened when inmates were free to roam the cellblock with no guards in sight. Review: An Arkansas Jail Unlocked the Cells. Did it Work?
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.
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 ...
The Randall L. Williams Correctional Facility is a prison of the Arkansas Department of Correction (ADC) located in the "Pine Bluff Complex" in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. [1] The 576-bed facility sits on a 10-acre (4.0 ha) plot of land. [2] The facility previously served as the Jefferson County Jail. Around 2008 the county opened the new W. C. "Dub ...
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."