LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Arkansas Board of Corrections has voted to move forward with land purchased to build a new prison in Charleston during a Friday morning meeting. Board members met to take a ...

The Franklin County city of Charleston is set to have a new 3,000-bed prison built there. Residents say they don't want it.

Hundreds of people living in Charleston gathered at the high school gym on Thursday night to get answers about a new ...

The Board of Corrections on Friday, November 8, 2024 accepted land in rural west as the site of a planned prison of up to ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Arkansas Board of Corrections has voted to build a new prison in Charleston in a Friday morning ...

During Thursday’s town hall in Charleston, Sen. Gary Stubblefield, R-Branch, suggested that legal action might be pursued to ...

Arkansas Sen. Bryan King (District 28) expresses his concerns about how the governor's office and the Department of Corrections have selected Franklin County for a new 3,000-bed prison after a town ...

"For Charleston, Franklin County, and the River Valley, it will offer hundreds of permanent, recession-proof jobs and millions of dollars in investment," Sanders said. The board voted 6-1 in favor of ...

A Charleston County judge has sentenced a Huger man to 18 years in prison for a 2018 police chase that ended with a crash ...

The vote came barely 12 hours after a contentious town hall meeting in Charleston where residents overwhelmingly voiced ...

The state's purchase for a new prison in Charleston led to a town hall meeting where people in the community say there's been ...