"The whole thing was built with a different philosophy in mind," Franklin County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Geoffrey Stobart ... to close the old Jackson Pike jail and finally consolidate all inmates into ...

Sheriff Jim Raymond sent a six-page letter to Pete Serrano, Pasco’s ex-mayor and now the interim U.S. Attorney for Eastern ...

The 5-0 vote calls for the counties to hire a consultant to see if a regional corrections facility makes sense.

The Arkansas Department of Corrections posted an information sheet on its Franklin County prison project website outlining ...

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders pushed back this week after criticism from the Franklin County sheriff related to her administration's proposal to put a new 3,000-bed prison on 815 acres of land a few ...

CHARLESTON -- Franklin County's sheriff voiced strong opposition this week to the ... That lack of beds for the number of inmates in the system has meant many prisoners are at least temporarily housed ...

On May 8, 1966, Franklin County jail inmates revolted against the conditions in the jail. Called the “Mother’s Day Riot” in The Columbus Dispatch, inmates smashed about fifty windows, ripped out two ...