Jamol Jones resigns from Arkansas Board of Corrections
A day after it was revealed Jamol Jones was fired as a Benton police officer for sexual misconduct, Jones resigned from the Post Prison Transfer Board, which also placed him on the Arkansas Board of Corrections (BOC). Jones, of Benton, was appointed in late January to the BOC as chair of the Post-Prison Transfer Board […]
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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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