A former police chief serving time for rape and murder who walked away from a state prison was incorrectly classified and ...

Arkansas lawmakers are demanding answers after a convicted murderer and rapist, Grant Hardin, escaped from the North Central ...

Additional employees at an Arkansas prison have been disciplined for not following procedures at a prison where an inmate ...

Payne said Hardin should have been a C-5 custody classification, which is the highest ranking, but the DOC's system did not ...

An automated inmate classification system incorrectly identified a former police chief and convicted murderer as a ...

On Monday, Division of Correction Director Dexter Payne answered questions about the escape of inmate Grant Hardin earlier ...

Grant Hardin, a 56-year-old inmate and former police chief, is on the run after escaping the North Central Unit in Calico Rock on Sunday, May 25, according to the Arkansas Department of ...

On June 6, 2025, officials with the Stone County Sheriff's Office confirmed that Grant Hardin, who was once the police chief of a small Arkansas town, had been found and taken into custody.

His new charge of second-degree escape could add 5 to 20 years to his current sentences. How Grant Hardin escaped Hardin escaped from the North Central Unit prison in Calico Rock, Arkansas.

Grant Hardin, a former Arkansas police chief and inmate, escaped the North Central Unit on May 25, according to officials. He's considered extremely dangerous.

At the time of the killing, Hardin was working as a correctional officer at Northwest Arkansas Community Correction Center in Fayetteville. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

A representative for Northwest Arkansas Community Correction Center in Fayetteville confirms Hardin briefly worked for them from November 21, 2016, to February 27, 2017.