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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.
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]
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.
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 North Central Unit, sometimes known as the Calico Rock Prison, was founded as a way to bring jobs to the area and to build a prison facility in the northern part of the state. [1] At the time of its founding, local residents protested against the facility being built. [1] In 2010, the prison expanded to house an additional 100 beds. [2]
Bonham police helped Fannin County Sheriff’s Office and Texas Department of Public Safety find a man who escaped from jail. A second escapee turned himself in.
Rice County Courthouse and Jail, in Faribault; Rock County Courthouse and Jail, in Luverne; Sibley County Courthouse and Sheriff's Residence and Jail, in Gaylord; State Prison Historic District, in Bayport; Stearns County Courthouse and Jail, in St. Cloud (jail demolished) Todd County Courthouse, Sheriff's House, and Jail, in Long Prairie (jail ...