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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.
Jul. 8—The Payne County Board of Commissioners focused on contracts during its June 29 meeting, the final meeting of fiscal year 2021/2022. The agenda included a lengthy list of contracts for ...
Arkansas State Hospital, originally known as Arkansas Lunatic Asylum, [1] is the sole public psychiatric hospital in the state of Arkansas, and is located in the city of Little Rock. It was established in 1883 and as of 2024, it is still active. Its main focus is on acute care rather than chronic illness. [2]
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.
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To this day, former Dozier inmates continue to push state law enforcement to investigate the deaths of dozens of inmates that occurred there from the turn of the 20th century through the early 1970s. Forensic anthropologists from the University of South Florida have identified an estimated 50 unmarked graves on the school’s site.
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]
Michael King, a 49-year-old father and handyman, died by suicide on Nov. 18, 2022, two days after being booked into the Payne County jail, according to a health department incident report.