As of June 1, 2024, there were 331 people listed as Clark County inmates on the state Department of Corrections website.
There was no change in the number of Clark County inmates from May to June. The inmates are distributed in various institutions throughout the state.
There are 22 Clark County inmates serving life sentences or life without parole.
The total includes 312 men and 19 women. There are 168 black inmates, 159 white inmates and four other races.
The following Clark County inmates have an eligible parole or transfer date of June 2024, although there are several factors that could affect any individual’s release for months or years.
Jirrus Brewer, 28, of Gurdon, is serving a 20-year sentence at the Cummins Unit in Grady. He was convicted and sentenced in 2019 on charges of residential burglary, escape and second-degree assault. Court records say Gurdon deputies detained Brewer after a report of a home invasion. Brewer was able to escape custody at the marshal’s office, but sheriff’s deputies eventually caught up with him.
Charles Wayne Carter, 33, of Gurdon, is on the Clark County waiting list awaiting transfer to serve a 3-year prison sentence. Carter was sentenced in May 2024 on 2,023 counts of arson, theft of property, criminal mischief and criminal trespass. Court records say Carter stole an all-terrain vehicle and drove it to his residence on Central Road, where he set the vehicle on fire.
Currently in the Benton work release program, Hugh Jackson, 30, is serving a 10-year sentence. He was sentenced in 2021 on charges of possession of a Schedule VI Controlled Substance and simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms. Jackson was arrested in January 2020 during a traffic stop when a Group 6 Narcotics agent located 7 bags of medical marijuana (Jackson was not in possession of a medical marijuana card) and 3 bags of street marijuana weighing a total of 47 grams, and 3 THC. vaping cartridges. In addition to the marijuana, police found a handgun and a loaded AK-47 in the vehicle, as well as $11,114 in cash. Jackson became the target of another arrest the following year when Narcotics Group 6 agents executed a search warrant at his Killingsworth Road residence and found THC and K2 vaporizer cartridges, synthetic marijuana.
Ricky Ray Provence, 43, of Amity, is serving a 12-year sentence at the Mississippi County W/R in Luxora. Provence was sentenced in 2022 for possession of a firearm by a certain person, theft by receiving, possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine or cocaine), and use of property of another to facilitate a crime. Provence became a suspect after Narcotics Group 6 learned of allegations that he was trafficking stolen firearms and narcotics. A search of his residence on Texas Road revealed methamphetamine and paraphernalia. Although asked about stolen firearms, the probable cause affidavit does not indicate any firearms were seized during the search.
Jacoby Wright, 36, is serving a four-year sentence in the Ester Unit. Wright, of Arkadelphia, was sentenced in October 2023 for revocation of probation on a charge of first-degree assault. Wright’s original charge stems from a 2017 attack with a “large” speaker on a man outside a Main Street residence.
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