Overcrowded: Protect Arkansas Act to drive continued prison population growth for at least a decade

Overcrowded: Protect Arkansas Act to drive continued prison population growth for at least a decade

Signs of opposition to the Franklin County prison decorated the fence directly across the street from the prison site's entrance on Arkansas Highway 215 on Nov. 13, 2025. (Photo by Ainsley Platt/Arkansas Advocate)If Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders needed a sign that Franklin County doesn’t want a 3,000-bed prison, it wouldn’t be hard to find. Fourth in a series on Arkansas’ crowded prisons Signs declaring opposition to the prison’s construction lin…