Arkansas governor taps new corrections secretary after conversations with prison board members
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders appointed the Department of Corrections’ chief of staff to take over the prisons agency as its cabinet secretary on Thursday. Sanders’ appointment of Lindsay Wallace, who has been the agency’s chief of staff since 2020, came a day after the Republican governor spoke with each member of the Arkansas Board of […]
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Arkansas prison board votes to name former state senator interim corrections secretary
The Arkansas Board of Corrections voted Wednesday to hire a former Republican state senator as the prison system’s interim head. The vote — which wasn’t included on the meeting’s agenda and required a suspension of the board’s rules — to make former Sen. Eddie Joe Williams of Cabot the interim secretary of the Department of […]
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Judge dismisses Arkansas AG’s FOIA lawsuit against prison board
A Central Arkansas judge dismissed Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin’s complaint against the state prison board Monday after a hearing in which the judge chided Griffin’s staff attorneys for wasting taxpayers’ money with the six-week lawsuit. Griffin alleged last month that the Arkansas Board of Corrections violated the state Freedom of Information Act and improperly […]
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Improving Arkansas prison mental health services focus of legislative hearing
Formerly incarcerated individuals and prison reform advocates told lawmakers Monday that inadequate mental health services is one of the Arkansas Department of Corrections’ biggest problems. LeDeana Biddle, founder of the nonprofit advocacy group Arkansas Department of Corrections Family Support, was one of a dozen people who told the Joint Committee on State Agencies and Governmental […]
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Arkansas Department of Corrections considering land donations for new maximum-security facility
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The Arkansas Board of Corrections and the Arkansas Department of Corrections (DOC) issued a public notice for submissions today for communities to express interest in donating land for the construction of a new maximum-security facility. According to a DOC press release, the new prison would house approximately 1,000 inmates within the […]
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Here’s a snapshot of the candidates running for Arkansas governor | National News
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- October 31, 2022
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — In their bids to succeed Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Libertarian candidate Ricky Dale Harrington, Jr., Democratic gubernatorial nominee Chris Jones, and Republican nominee Sarah Huckabee Sanders offer voters vastly different agendas and experience to choose from in the Nov. 8 general election. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Republican Party) Sanders advanced from the Republican […]
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Here’s a snapshot of the candidates running for Arkansas governor | ArkLaTex Politics
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Google-News-Wire
- October 31, 2022
- arkansas
- arkansas department of corrections
- Arkansas elections
- arkansas republicans
- Campaign Manager
- campus minister
- Chris Jones
- country subdivisions
- crisis prevention technician
- Democratic Party
- Democratic primary
- Donald Trump
- governor
- harding university
- harrington
- harrington consulting llc
- jefferson high school
- katv
- libertarian party
- libertarian policy institute
- little rock
- little rock central high school
- marshall
- massachusetts institute of technology
- mike huckabee
- minister
- morehouse college
- national political director
- nuclear engineering/technology
- ouachita baptist university
- physicist
- president
- press secretary for the presidential administration
- program specialist
- Republican Party
- republican primary
- ricky dale harrington jr.
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- sarah huckabee sanders defends avoiding arkansas press
- senior advisor
- snapshot
- sunset international bible institute
- Texas
- the ceo
- tim pawlenty
- United States
- united states senate election in arkansas
- university parkway church
- university parkway church of christ
- vice president of azure behavioral health
- white county medical center
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — In their bids to succeed Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Libertarian candidate Ricky Dale Harrington, Jr., Democratic gubernatorial nominee Chris Jones, and Republican nominee Sarah Huckabee Sanders offer voters vastly different agendas and experience to choose from in the Nov. 8 general election. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Republican Party) Sanders advanced from the Republican […]
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