Signs of squalor are everywhere: inmates sleeping on floors, rotting food, piles of trash, inoperable toilets, broken pipes, ...

Local law enforcement officials — from police chiefs, to the sheriff to the district attorney — believe plans for the new ...

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is appealing a June 5 ruling by the Arkansas Supreme Court that left the authority over the ...

Authorities recaptured convicted murderer and rapist Grant Hardin on June 6 after he escaped out of the North Central Unit in Calico Rock on Sunday, May 25. Hardin, dressed in a makeshift law ...

CHARLESTON, Ark. — The Arkansas Board of Corrections approved a $57 million contract for the design of a proposed new state prison. The proposed plan is for a 3,000-bed prison in Franklin County.

A guard at the back gate of the North Central Unit prison "didn't do his job" when Grant Matthew Hardin escaped last month, the director of the Arkansas Department of Corrections said Tuesday.

Hardin escaped from the North Central Unit prison in Calico Rock, Arkansas. The 35-year-old prison has a capacity for 800 inmates, according to the Arkansas Department of Correction (ADOC) website.

CALICO ROCK, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — New photos from the U.S. Border Patrol show Grant Hardin shortly after being captured less than two miles from North Central Unit after a 12-day manhunt ...

Convicted killer and recaptured prison escapee Grant Hardin, known as the “Devil in the Ozarks,” has been transferred to the Varner SuperMax prison southeast of Little Rock, Arkansas prison ...

Grant Hardin, also known as the “Devil in the Ozarks,” was captured by authorities 1.5 miles away from the Calico Rock North Central Unit in Arkansas, where he had been held since 2017, on ...

Since 2017, he was in the North Central Unit serving a 30-year sentence for first-degree murder, and 25 years for each rape count. He pleaded guilty to the murder of James Appleton, 59, a city ...

After being taken back into custody, Hardin was transported to the North Central Unit in Calico Rock for positive identification through fingerprinting and an initial medical evaluation. Following ...