Arkansas
Arkansas will add more state prison beds despite officials’ fears about understaffing
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ administration has taken action to reduce overcrowding at state prisons by adding hundreds of new beds, going over the heads of corrections officials who had said staffing shortages would make it unsafe to add so many new prisoners all at once. The extra space is needed, […]
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Arkansas
Judge Says Arkansas Can’t Prosecute Librarians For Carrying ‘Harmful’ Books—After State Joined National Push To Restrict Books
Topline An Arkansas law that threatened criminal charges against librarians and booksellers who provide “harmful” materials to minors is on hold due to a federal judge’s Saturday ruling, after the state followed in the footsteps of a number of other Republican-controlled states that have restricted reading materials for students. enforce a law that would have […]
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