Efforts to secure funding for a proposed 3,000-bed state prison in Franklin County has come to a halt.On Tuesday, Senate Bill ...

SB633 would transfer funds from the General Revenue Allotment Reserve Fund to the Correctional Facilities Set-Aside within ...

As time ticks down on the 2025 legislative session, the bill to fund a new prison in Franklin County fails yet again.

After three failed votes, Arkansas lawmakers remain divided over SB354, a $750M prison plan backed by the governor but facing ...

Kay Ivey for her signature. The Alabama Legislature in 2021 approved a $1.3 billion prison construction plan to build two supersized prisons as a partial solution to the problems in its violent ...

The contract with Phoenix-based Arrington Watkins is just the latest deduction from a $62 million pool of money spent down to ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Board of Corrections (BOC) met on April 3 to discuss the ongoing Franklin County prison ...

A bill that would have appropriated up to $750 million for a prison in Franklin County failed in the Arkansas Senate on ...

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 72-14 for legislation that would give the state the ability to borrow an additional $500 million for prison construction. Republican Rep. Rex Reynolds, the ...

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 72-14 for legislation that would give the state the ability to borrow an additional $500 million for prison construction. Republican Rep. Rex Reynolds ...