Franklin County prison project not canceled, Arkansas corrections secretary says

The 3,000-bed Franklin County prison project that’s faced legislative resistance hasn’t been canceled and remains an option, the head of the Arkansas Department of Corrections told lawmakers Tuesday.“Nobody has said that. We haven’t discussed that,” Corrections Secretary Lindsay Wallace said when asked if the project had been canceled. “We very clearly need to have more beds. Like I said earlier, given that we did not have funding to move forward with that pr