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

Lu Hardin, a former state senator, Arkansas Department of Higher Education director and University of Central Arkansas ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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The Arkansas Department of Corrections fired two employees after Grant Hardin's escape from the North Central Unit in May 2025.