Payne said Hardin should have been a C-5 custody classification, which is the highest ranking, but the DOC's system did not ...

Hardin also brought wooden pallets he fashioned into a ladder and a box with food, Champion said. Hardin was captured in a sweeping manhunt on June 6 about a mile-and-a-half from the facility.

Corrections officials say two Arkansas prison employees errantly helped Grant Hardin, the former police chief convicted of murder and rape, escape from a prison in May. A kitchen supervisor, who ...

Hardin, known as the “Devil in the Ozarks,” is a former police chief who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a man. While serving time for that crime, his DNA connected him to a rape case and ...

According to corrections officials, Hardin was allowed onto the prison kitchen’s back dock at 1:58 p.m. on the day of the escape. He fled nearly an hour later, at 2:53 p.m.

Hardin also brought wooden pallets he fashioned into a ladder and a box with food, Champion said. Hardin was captured in a sweeping manhunt on June 6 about a mile-and-a-half from the facility.

(NewsNation) — New details have emerged about convicted murderer and rapist Grant Hardin ‘s escape from an Arkansas prison, including his use of Sharpies and a Bible cover. The former police ...

Hardin also brought wooden pallets he fashioned into a ladder and a box with food, Champion said. Hardin was captured in a sweeping manhunt on June 6 about a mile-and-a-half from the facility.