The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

As state’s new prison plan remains stalled, ICE attention to Franklin County site sparks renewed conflict

The hullabaloo elicited by federal immigration agents visiting the proposed new state prison site in Franklin County ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

No ‘rubber stamp’: State lawmakers holding off on design contract vote, putting Franklin County prison project ‘on hold’

CHARLESTON -- State lawmakers have hit the brakes on the next step needed to green-light construction of a new 3,000-bed prison proposed for a Franklin County site. Now the project is "on hold" -- and ...