LITTLE ROCK – Apologizing to lawmakers in 1995 for being slow to explain allegations of corruption, contraband and bribery, Correction Director Larry Norris said “a penitentiary system is a problem business.”

By that standard, business is booming for Arkansas’ prisons.

An inmate nearly died after being left covered in his own excrement for a weekend. Two convicted murderers escape a state prison by wearing guard uniforms made at the same site. Officers at another unit fatally shoot a man who officials say fled from a contraband checkpoint. Guards apparently receive lap ...

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