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The Second General Assembly in 1838 allocated $20,000 ($572,000 today) to a state penitentiary in Little Rock. [5] The state purchased a 92.41-acre (37.40 ha) tract outside of Little Rock in 1839, and the Third General Assembly allocated another $40,500 ($1,236,000 today) in 1840 to finish construction of the Arkansas State Penitentiary.
The Preston E. Smith Unit is a state prison for men located in Lamesa, Dawson County, Texas, owned and operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [1] This facility was opened in October 1992, and a maximum capacity of 2234 male inmates held at various security levels. The prison was named for Texas governor Preston Smith.
On October 10, 2013, FoxNews.com reported on how the United States federal government shutdown of 2013 was affecting employees at FCI Forrest City. Citing a story from WMC-TV, prison employees were unsure when the next time they would receive a paycheck amid the shutdown, but the inmates are continuing to get paid for jobs like landscaping.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — 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 ...
The number of death row inmates fluctuates daily with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [1] Due to this fluctuation as well as lag and inconsistencies in inmate reporting procedures across jurisdictions , the information in this article may be ...
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]
Tyrekennel Collins, 24, and Dezarrious Johnson, 18, broke free from the Claiborne County Detention Center around 2:20 a.m., the sheriff's office said in a Facebook post.
This is a list of prisoners who have received a whole life order, formerly called a whole life tariff, through some mechanism in jurisdictions of the United Kingdom.From the introduction of the whole life order system in 1983 until an appeal by a prisoner named Anthony Anderson in 2002, a whole life order was set by government ministers.