Joint Performance Review Committee Co-Chair Sen. Terry Rice watches recorded video of previous testimony given by Joe Profiri, former corrections secretary and current staffer for Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, at a hearing on the Franklin County prison on Sept. 9, 2025. (Photo by Ainsley Platt/Arkansas Advocate)
A motion to subpoena the former secretary of the Arkansas Department of Corrections failed on a voice vote of senators on the Joint Performance Review Committee during a hearing Tuesday on alleged impropriety in the site selection process for the Franklin County prison.
Multiple legislators voiced anger over Joe Profiri’s absence at the hearing, which was called in response to a petition by Adam Watson and Natalie Cadena, members of a coalition of opponents to the location of the 3,000-bed prison near Charleston…