Arkansas Lawmaker Calls for Changes to New Prison Plan

Arkansas State Senator Bryan King, R-Green Forest, is making his case for an alternative to a current prison funding plan to ease overcrowding. As Josie Lenora with Little Rock Public Radio reports, Sen. King held a news conference Wednesday where he suggested that instead of building one 3,000 bed mega-prison in West Arkansas, the state should relocate existing money to increase prison capacity in high crime counties.

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