VARNER -- As Gov. Asa Hutchinson tried out a virtual excavator inside the Arkansas Correctional School District campus at the Varner Unit, he let out a "woo!" after pulling up just a few rocks. "I got ...

GRADY, Ark. (AP) - The Arkansas Department of Correction says a state prison inmate at the department's Varner Unit at Grady has died. Department spokeswoman Shea Wilson said Wednesday that ...

Three men were found dead in a high-security Arkansas prison within 24 hours, a state Department of Correction spokesman said Monday. James DePriest, assistant director and chief legal counsel at the ...

GOULD, Ark. (KATV) — Two more Arkansas inmates have died at the Varner Unit, bringing the total this week to five. Arkansas Department of Correction spokesperson James DePriest says Joe Harris, 55, ...

GOULD, Ark. (KATV) — An Arkansas prison died from an apparent suicide Thursday night at the Varner Supermax Unit, said the Department of Correction in a news release. The Department of Correction said ...

A legislative committee heard from Correction Department officials today on a recent spate of deaths in the Varner Unit presumed to be related to illegal drugs, perhaps the synthetic drug known as K2.

A man serving time for a robbery in Sebastian County was one of two inmates found dead in an Arkansas prison Wednesday morning, bringing the total dead at the Varner Unit this week to five.Donovan ...

VARNER -- Near the high-voltage fence separating this state penitentiary from the outside world, there's now a new 5,000-square-feet educational building -- the future home of Arkansas' only prison ...

Two prisoners at Arkansas' Varner Unit were found unresponsive in their cells Wednesday morning and later died, a prison official confirmed, raising to five the total number of deaths at the prison ...

GOULD, Ark. (KY3) -Video footage shows recaptured inmate Grant Hardin arriving at the Varner Unit SuperMax prison. The video, provided by the Arkansas Department of Corrections, shows the “Devil in ...

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GRADUATION DAY: The chapel at the Varner prison unit was the setting for the first college graduation in the state prison system. (Photo by Griffin Coop) Graduates dressed in academic regalia listened ...