Board of Corrections

Attorney General Tim Griffin on Wednesday asked a state court to prevent the Arkansas Board of Corrections from spending any public funds on a lawyer he says the board hired illegally.

The legal dispute between the Arkansas Board of Corrections and Attorney General Tim Griffin deepened this week, even as the board acted to try to resolve it.

The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a lower court’s dismissal of the attorney general’s lawsuit against the state prison board for violating the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act.

Officials must negotiate the price of the contract next.

Development continues for a new prison in the west Arkansas city of Charleston, as locals are fighting to put the prison anywhere else.

Arkansas prison officials on Tuesday approved a lease agreement between the state’s Development Finance Authority and the Department of Corrections for 815 acres in Franklin County.

The Franklin County city of Charleston is set to have a new 3,000-bed prison built there. Residents say they don't want it.

Arkansas’ prison board will investigate when and how changes were made to a legal contract without the knowledge of state procurement officials.

Alonza Jiles is accused of ignoring widespread child sexual abuse while working at The Lord’s Ranch, a now-defunct religious boarding school in north Arkansas.

Alonza Jiles is accused of covering up child abuse at a religious boarding school he worked at.