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20 Apr 2022, 8:07 am by Ana Popovich
McLellan Memorial Hospital, a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. [read post]
14 Jan 2009, 8:46 am
1-14-2009 Arkansas: BENTONVILLE (AP) The state Correction Department says it does not have enough translators to accommodate non-English speakers if they are ordered into a treatment program for sex offenders. [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 8:27 am by Steve Hall
Earlier coverage of the Arkansas lethal injection challenge begins at the link. [read post]
30 Nov 2007, 8:02 am
A committee composed of sociologists, criminologists, prosecutors and defense attorneys from around the state needs to be formed to study a variety of factors, Rickard said, such as the cost of the death penalty, an execution's effect on the family of a murder victim, whether convictions are geographically biased and the cost to the state Department of Correction in terms of turnover of personnel involved in the process. [read post]
1 May 2014, 1:54 pm by CJLF Staff
Report Shows Spike in Arkansas Prison Population: A report presented to the Arkansas Board of Corrections indicates that the state's prison population increased 17.7% in 2013. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 9:58 am by Steve Hall
The three men are plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed in Pulaski County Circuit Court alleging that a 2009 state law authorizing the director of the state Department of Correction to choose the drugs used for lethal injection amounts to an unconstitutional delegation of authority. [read post]
20 May 2008, 6:01 am
Nearly 1,000 people have graduated from the program, according to the Arkansas Department of Community Corrections, and about 1,600 are enrolled in programs across the state. [read post]
2 Apr 2009, 12:05 pm
" He said he was only interested in protecting Correction Department staff from harm and carrying out quick, painless and humane executions. [read post]
9 Oct 2014, 8:32 am by The Federalist Society
Hobbs, which concerns whether the Arkansas Department of Correction's grooming policy, which generally prohibits inmates from growing beards save for a narrow health-based exception, violates the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) by impermissibly burdening the religious liberty of a Muslim inmate seeking to grow a half-inch beard for religious reasons. [read post]
9 Feb 2010, 11:20 am by Steve Hall
"The Nebraska issue relates to the procedure by which the Legislature delegated responsibility to the Department of Corrections," to devise the actual steps in the lethal-injection protocol, said Jerry Soucie. [read post]
25 Jun 2012, 8:16 am by Steve Hall
The court, in a split decision, agreed with 10 death row inmates who said the Arkansas constitution says only its Legislature can set execution policy, an authority state lawmakers gave its Correction Department in 2009. [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 5:00 am by zshapiro
Arkansas Department of Community Correction Officer Craig Robie went to to a hotel in Fort Smith where he had heard one of his parolees, David Oteri was dealing drugs. [read post]
17 Sep 2010, 9:15 am by Eric Lipman
Shawanna Nelson Lumsey won her lawsuit against the Arkansas Department of Corrections (see this New York Times story for background), but was awarded only nominal damages of $1. [read post]
23 Oct 2017, 11:45 am
Not so in Arkansas, where death row prisoners — and their lawyers — are expected to argue to the head of the Department of Corrections that they qualify for the exemption. [read post]
4 Feb 2015, 1:00 pm by The Federalist Society
Hobbs, which concerns whether the Arkansas Department of Correction's grooming policy, which generally prohibits inmates from growing beards save for a narrow health-based exception, violates the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) by impermissibly burdening the religious liberty of a Muslim inmate seeking to grow a half-inch beard for religious reasons. [read post]
3 Mar 2014, 9:01 am by Howard Friedman
In the case, the 8th Circuit affirmed the district court's decision upholding the grooming policy of the Arkansas Department of Corrections that allows inmates to wear trimmed mustaches but otherwise no facial hair, with quarter-inch beards permitted only for a diagnosed dermatological problem. [read post]
8 Apr 2010, 11:21 am by Steve Hall
She said she had grabbed the pen by mistake, Arkansas Department of Correction spokesman Dina Tyler has said.Wright, 66, served as then-Gov. [read post]
13 Apr 2010, 7:51 am by Steve Hall
And:The lawsuit in Pulaski County Circuit Court, filed by condemned killer Jack Harold Jones Jr., alleges the Legislature gave the state Department of Correction too much authority in establishing execution protocols in the 2009 Arkansas Method of Execution Act. [read post]