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Pine Bluff is the largest city in a three-county MSA as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau including Jefferson, Cleveland, and Lincoln counties. The Pine Bluff MSA population in 2000 was 107,341 people. The Pine Bluff MSA population in 2007 dropped to 101,484. Pine Bluff was the fastest-declining Arkansas MSA from 2000 to 2007.
Arkansas governors served two-year terms until a referendum lengthened the term to four years, effective with the 1986 general election. Statewide elections are held two years after presidential elections. Some of Arkansas's counties have two county seats, as opposed to the usual one seat. The arrangement dates back to when travel was extremely ...
The Jefferson County Courthouse is the center of county government for Jefferson County, Arkansas. It is located in the Pine Bluff Commercial Historic District in Pine Bluff on the border between the Arkansas delta and Piney Woods.
Following reorganization in 2019, Arkansas state government's executive branch contains fifteen cabinet-level departments. Many formerly independent departments were consolidated as "divisions" under newly created departments under a shared services model.
The Arkansas Department of Community Correction Southeast Arkansas Community Corrections Center is in Pine Bluff. [31] The Maximum Security Unit is 25 miles (40 km) north of central Pine Bluff and off Arkansas Highway 15 in unincorporated Jefferson County. [ 32 ]
Pine Bluff Transit is the primary provider of mass transportation in Pine Bluff, Arkansas with eight routes serving the region. As of 2019, the system provided 60,572 rides over 16,038 annual vehicle revenue hours with 4 buses and 2 paratransit vehicles.
Previous facilities of the State of Arkansas that housed juveniles include the Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville, [14] the Arkansas Boys Industrial School near Pine Bluff, and state industrial schools for white girls and black girls. On January 9, 1957, Orvel M. Johnson, the state legislative auditor, recommended consolidating the ...
The reform, approved as Amendment 55 to the Arkansas Constitution of 1874, made sweeping changes to the structure of county government. County judges were transformed into county executives who worked with the quorum court to conduct county business, [7] stripping the almost unfettered power they had accumulated since 1874. [6]