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Additional employees at an Arkansas prison have been disciplined for not following procedures at a prison where an inmate ...
A former police chief serving time for rape and murder who walked away from a state prison was incorrectly classified and ...
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It was originally published at 3:32 p.m. under the headline "Corrections Board chair says the ‘stars had to line up’ leading to ‘Devil in the Ozarks’ Grant Hardin escape." ...
Board of Corrections chairman Benny Magness answers questions about the escape of inmate Grant Hardin, Thursday, July 10, 2025, in Little Rock, Ark., at a meeting of the Charitable, Penal, and ...
Grant Hardin escaped from the prison using a fabricated law enforcement uniform that allowed him to move through a secure gate to the outside of the prison. He was captured two weeks later, a mile ...
Grant Hardin is accused of escaping an Arkansas prison. Hardin was serving an 80-year combined prison sentence. He first pleaded guilty to the 2017 murder of James Appleton, a water department ...
Grant Hardin, a 56-year-old murderer and rapist, was captured on June 6, approximately 1.5 miles north-northwest of the North Central Unit prison facility from which he escaped on May 25, the ...
The head of the Arkansas Board of Corrections told state lawmakers the violations allowed Grant Hardin to escape from the Calico Rock prison wearing a makeshift law enforcement uniform on May 25.
Sen. Ben Gilmore, R-Crossett, asks a question about the escape of inmate Grant Hardin during a meeting of the Charitable, Penal, and Correctional Institutions Subcommittee of the Arkansas ...
He also created a homemade badge out of a can lid, button and Bible cover. Hardin, who was assigned to work in the prison’s kitchen, hid the uniform in a kitchen chemical storage area.