There is a game camera trained on the entrance to the proposed prison site in Franklin County. It has captured mysterious ...

Building a maximum-security, 3,000-bed prison was supposed to be a crowning achievement for Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee ...

In August, state Sen. Bryan King, R-Green Forest, called on the Arkansas Department of Corrections to stop paying a ...

IMPACT STATEMENT. >> WELL, KYRA, LET’S TALK ABOUT THE FIRST TEST WELLS BEING DRILLED AT THE FRANKLIN COUNTY SITE WHERE THE STATE IS PLANNING A 3000 BED PRISON. WELL, THEY HAVE FOUND WATER YIELD FAR ...

OZARK, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The Franklin County Sheriff has expressed strong opposition to the state’s plan to use land near Charleston for a 3,000-bed prison, and it also being the possible site of a U ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — The first test wells drilled at the Franklin County site on which the state is planning a 3,000-bed prison have found a water yield far below the prison's considerable needs ...

The five Republican candidates vying in the Jan. 6 special primary election for the Arkansas Senate seat formerly held by the ...

Shelby Johnson (L), the state's GIS director, and Anne Laidlaw, director of the Division of Building Authority, struggle to answer legislators' questions at a Sept. 2025 Joint Performance Review ...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ark. — The controversial proposed Franklin County prison site is now rumored to possibly be the location of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility to house ...

Inside Franklin County's James A. Karnes Corrections Center on Columbus' West Side, 35 men, all veterans of the U.S. military, sat at tables while a county sheriff's deputy told them about their ...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office hosted its fifth annual “Jingle at the Jail” holiday ...