The areas the state auditor’s office looked into were troubled finances at the HAPO Center, a jail commissary contract and ...

The Franklin County jail entered into a contract with a vendor in 2018 to provide commissary services for the facility. The agreement included a profit-sharing provision. At some point the ...

After three failed votes, Arkansas lawmakers remain divided over SB354, a $750M prison plan backed by the governor but facing ...

CHARLESTON -- From Little Rock to rural Franklin County, sparring over the proposed location of a new 3,000-bed prison shows... Penny Weaver is an award-winning journalist who covers crime ...

Franklin County Judge Rickey Bowman disputes the governor's claims of transparency regarding the project. The Chickamauga tribe continues to investigate potential Native American burial sites in the ...

Last Saturday, about thirty people including staffers, friends, family and even inmates all chipped in to try and move ...

The Washington State Auditors Office delivered a report about a lack of oversight on contracts in Franklin County this week, but elected officials there have very different interpretations of what ...