Cummins Unit News

State Prison Director Larry Norris has informed the state Board of Corrections he plans to retire early next year.

Two convicted murderers who escaped from the Cummins Unit by wearing guard uniforms have been sentenced to an additional six years in prison.

Joshua Bridges looks at a shoe he is preparing for the horse in the background Wednesday during a workshop at the Arkansas Department of Correctiona s Cummins Unit.

The state Board of Corrections gave a vote of confidence today to Prison Director Larry Norris, whose leadership has been questioned in recent months by some lawmakers concerned about a rash of serious incidents earlier this year.

A former top aide to Bill Clinton when he was Arkansas governor was charged Wednesday with trying to smuggle a knife and 48 tattoo needles onto the state's death row.

An Arkansas death-row inmate allegedly passed love letters to a guard and committed a sex act with her before supervisors discovered their illicit romance, documents obtained by The Associated Press show.

Lawmakers retraced the steps of two convicted murders who escaped an Arkansas prison wearing guard uniforms, questioning corrections officials Monday over a perceived culture of complacency at the state's lockups.

Lawmakers retraced the steps of two convicted murders who escaped an Arkansas prison wearing guard uniforms, questioning corrections officials Monday over a perceived culture of complacency at the state's lockups.

Lawmakers retraced the steps of two convicted murders who escaped an Arkansas prison wearing guard uniforms, questioning corrections officials Monday over a perceived culture of complacency at the state's lockups.

Lawmakers retraced the steps of two convicted murders who escaped an Arkansas prison wearing guard uniforms, questioning corrections officials Monday over a perceived culture of complacency at the state's lockups.

The state Board of Corrections voted today to ban maximum and medium security inmates from manufacturing guard uniforms after the May escape of two murderers who walked out of a prison unit dressed as prison guards and fled in a waiting car.

The Arkansas Board of Correction has approved a plan to stop maximum security inmates from making guard uniforms and to tighten security at its lockups.

The Arkansas Department of Correction will meet Thursday to discuss the recent escape from the Cummins Unit.

An incident in which an Arkansas prison inmate nearly died after he was left lying naked in his own feces over a weekend was not serious enough to merit discussion by the state Board of Corrections, the board's chairman said Thursday.

LITTLE ROC - Fingerprint scanners now keeping track of visitors to Arkansas state prisons will soon monitor the guards as well.

An Arkansas prison spokeswoman says the agency plans to roll out fingerprint scanners at all its facilities for guards and other employees to check in and out.

The Department of Correction's airplane, recently used to ferry prison board members and officials as well as Attorney General Dustin McDaniel around the state and beyond, has barely been used since an article by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette about its use.

This cell phone was discovered in an inmatea s property at the Varner Unit in Grady during a shakedown.

RAPHEL CHERRY: He was supremely talented as a passer and runner, leading UH in both in 1984.

The director of state prisons told lawmakers Tuesday he was "embarrassed" over recent serious incidents in the system, but that they were isolated and not part of a bigger problem.