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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Tess Vrbin, Arkansas Advocate

    Arkansas Advocate: Arkansas lawmakers told helping inmates return to society will ease prison overcrowding (opens the original)

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    Arkansas lawmakers and criminal justice reform advocates agreed Wednesday, September 30, 2026 that improving the systems that help inmates return to society after incarceration will alleviate the state’s prison overcrowding problem. State correctional facilities have 15,362 beds and 16,804 inmates as of September 1, and county jails are often tasked with holding inmates waiting for state prison beds. “We also need to examine what happens before someone reaches those prison beds,” said Mary

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Tess Vrbin, Arkansas Advocate

    Arkansas Advocate: Arkansas TV announces lineup for state, federal debates next month (opens the original)

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    Arkansas’ public television station will host political debates for seven state and federal offices next month, but without Republican U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton. Cotton’s opponents, Democrat Hallie Shoffner and Libertarian Jeff Wadlin, will debate live at Arkansas TV headquarters in Conway at 1:30 p.m. on October 12. The debate will be rebroadcast at 7 p.m. Shoffner and Wadlin will also participate in an October 22 debate at ASU-TV, Arkansas State University’s student-led broadcast station in J

  3. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Tess Vrbin, Arkansas Advocate

    Arkansas Advocate: Arkansas judge weighing future of lawsuit challenging state’s abortion ban (opens the original)

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    A Pulaski County circuit judge is considering whether to dismiss the constitutional challenge to Arkansas’ abortion ban after hearing arguments from the plaintiffs and the state in a two-hour hearing Monday. Circuit Judge Cara Connors did not say when she expected to rule regarding the lawsuit filed earlier this year by six women and an obstetrician-gynecologist challenging Arkansas’ abortion law. Arkansas has among the nation’s strictest abortion bans, and the challenge against it is the

  4. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Tess Vrbin, Arkansas Advocate

    Arkansas Advocate: South Korean defense contractor will build $2.2 billion factory at Pine Bluff Arsenal (opens the original)

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    WHITE HALL — A South Korean company announced Monday, September 21, 2026 it will build its first United States facility that produces artillery ammunition at Arkansas’ Pine Bluff Arsenal, creating about 400 jobs with an average wage of $50 per hour over seven years. Hanwha Defense USA’s $2.2 billion factory “is the kind of transformational investment Jefferson County and the Delta need,” Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at Monday’s news conference and ribbon-cutting ceremony that cel

  5. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Tess Vrbin, Arkansas Advocate

    Arkansas Advocate: Families of Arkansas children with disabilities say more action needed on waitlist (opens the original)

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    Families of Arkansas children with disabilities packed the Old Supreme Court room at the state Capitol on Wednesday, September 16, 2026 and urged Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to take further action toward clearing a waiting list for supportive services. More than 2,400 Arkansas families are waiting for a Medicaid waiver that will help them meet their children’s complex medical and non-medical needs. A maximum of 8,233 Arkansans can receive supportive services from the waiver, and many families

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