Arkansas has opened 1,485 prison beds in the two years since Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders took office, in a concerted effort to combat what she has called the overcrowding that has plagued the state's ...

A new report by Arrington Watkins, a consultant commissioned by the state of South Dakota, is recommending the state "move forward" with plans to build a new men's prison. The consultant report ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT) - Many jails across the Natural State received more prison beds in the last two years. Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a release that the state opened 1,485 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Not long after a study was completed outlining the need for more prison beds for male offenders, the South Dakota Legislature passed a law to increase the need for more ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An email from Arkansas Board of Corrections (BOC) member Lee Watson to legislators calls for a different path to solving the state's prison bed shortage than the proposed 3,000-bed ...

Days after rejecting the same request, lawmakers signed off on millions of dollars in prison bed funding as overcrowding ...