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'Arkansas Department of Correction'

Low staffing may have contributed to Arkansas prisoner's death

Correctional officers at the state prison in Malvern did not lay eyes on Anthony Mosley for nearly 90 minutes on the night he died.
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Sarah Sanders, who denied clemency to an innocent man, to pardon a turkey today

A silly holiday photo op has a small amount of political value for Sanders, while allowing a sliver of grace and humanity to a man who the justice system failed decades ago does not.
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Books behind bars: Varner program prepares college grads to assist prison chaplains

"My goal was to get a college degree. What I got was a changed heart," said one of 18 students who graduated with bachelor's degrees in Christian Studies from The College at Mid-America program at the Varner prison unit in Grady Friday.

Foul play is suspected in inmate death at Cummins

Officers discovered the deceased inmate during a scheduled security check at 2:50 a.m. on Sunday.
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Prison system goes into 'lockdown' because of a rise in COVID-19 cases among staff

Almost 200 staff members have tested positive and are on leave.

Incarcerated, infected and ignored: inside the Cummins prison outbreak

Inmates at Arkansas’s Cummins Unit say guards treated them like “lepers” as COVID-19 tore through the penitentiary.
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Doctors seeking execution drugs from states to help virus patients

A plea from doctors to states with execution drugs to releasd them to treat coronavirus cases.

Prisons look to jamming cell phones to reduce contraband

The state Correction Department issued a news release saying it was hopeful that new technology would allow jamming of cell phone signals from housing areas of the state prisons and thus end their use for bringing contraband.
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Incomplete pass at Grimes Unit

A football tossed over the fence at the Grimes Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction in Newport was received by the correctional officers there, the ADC reports on its Facebook page. Inside the ball: two kinds of drugs and cellphones.

Group challenges program to train Baptist ministers in Arkansas prison

The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a nonprofit that works against the entanglement of government with religion, has written the Arkansas Correction Department to question a new initiative to allow Varner inmates to earn a college degree in Christian studies to prepare to become ministers.
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Memorial to be dedicated to 21 killed in 1959 juvenile lockup fire

The state Correction Department, 60 years after the fact, will unveil a memorial on the grounds of its Wrightsville unit, the site March 5, 1959 of a fire that killed 21 boys locked inside the Negro Boys Industrial School.

State suspends search for execution drug

KARK reports that the state Correction Department has temporarily stopped searching for midazolam, one of the drugs used in executions. That likely means no further executions until the law can be changed to provide more secrecy in the process.
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