A new jail in Pensacola is being considered for 26 acres which was home to the Escambia Wood Treating Company (ETC) who was found to have contaminated an underground aquifer and hundreds of thousands of tons of soil.

An Arkansas Department of Correction prisoner died Monday afternoon while working on a construction project at the department's Ester Unit in Pine Bluff.

An Arkansas Department of Correction prisoner died Monday afternoon while working on a construction project at the department's Ester Unit in Pine Bluff.

A three-day conference, called “Advancing Justice: An Agenda for Human Dignity & Public Safety,” was billed by one of its organizers as “transideological.” The two governors who spoke at the conference – Democrat Jack Markell from Delaware and Republican Asa Hutchinson from Arkansas – did not come armed with press releases about new policies that they would be implementing.