Overcrowding plaguing county jails in Northeast Arkansas

BATESVILLE, Ark. (KAIT) – County jails across Northeast Arkansas, if not already full, are filling up. Independence County Sheriff Shawn Stephens explained his jail is regularly a 118-bed facility, but is holding 116 county inmates and 20 other inmates from the state. With his jail busting at the seams, the…

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