Varner Unit News

Maurice Clemmons run of crime in Arkansas began in Little Rock 20 years ago. He was sentenced to 105 years in prison for multiple robberies and burglaries in 1990.

Two convicted murderers who escaped from the Cummins Unit by wearing guard uniforms have been sentenced to an additional six years in prison.

We're learning more about Bill Clinton's former chief of staff and the charges against her.

Betsey Wright, a prisoner rights activist and former chief of staff for then-Gov. Bill Clinton, is free on $1,500 bond after being booked into the Lincoln County jail on Saturday on 51 counts of furnishing prohibited articles into a correctional facility.

Betsey Wright, Bill Clinton 's chief of staff during 7 of his 12 years as governor of Arkansas and later a senior member of his successful 1992 campaign for the White House, has been charged with carrying a pocketknife, a box cutter and tattoo needles into a state prison housing death row inmates.

A A A' Betsey Ross Wright, a former chief of staff for then-Gov. Bill Clinton, zealously defended Arkansas death-row inmates and often irritated state officials with her demands to film executions and get better food for prisoners.

An Arkansas death-row inmate allegedly passed love letters to a guard and committed a sex act with her before supervisors discovered their illicit romance, documents obtained by The Associated Press show.

Bill Clinton's chief of staff when he was governor of Arkansas is expected to turn herself in after authorities issued a bench warrant for her arrest for allegedly smuggling contraband into a state prison, her attorney told CNN Wednesday.

This cell phone was discovered in an inmatea s property at the Varner Unit in Grady during a shakedown.

Authorities are investigating the death of a state prison inmate who was found to have amphetamine and methamphetamine in his system, a prison spokeswoman said Monday.