The employees unwittingly helped Grant Hardin, a former police chief, walk out of a prison in May, dressed in a fake law enforcement uniform, officials said.

Officials said a kitchen supervisor left Grant Hardin alone on a loading dock and a tower guard let him out the gates.

Arkansas officials blame prison employees for 'Devil in the Ozarks' escape Officials said a kitchen supervisor left Grant Hardin alone on a loading dock and a tower guard let him out the gates.

Personnel changes were made at the Arkansas Department of Corrections after an inmate known as the "Devil in the Ozarks" walked away from a prison in May, a spokesman for the department said Wednesday ...

Lee Watson told legislators the corrections board has never asked for the 3,000-bed mega-prison the governor is pursuing.

He fled the prison around 3 p.m. that Sunday through a sally port in the detention facility, wearing a makeshift ADC-style uniform, ADC communications director Rand Champion said previously ...

A photo from surveillance footage showed Hardin wearing the outfit and pushing a loaded cart as he escaped. Champion said Hardin was gone for about 20 minutes when an officer noticed he was missing.

Rand Champion, Chief of Communications for the ADC, said two people employed at the North Central Unit were fired in the days following the escape of Hardin.

He fled the prison around 3 p.m. that Sunday through a sally port in the detention facility, wearing a makeshift ADC-style uniform, ADC communications director Rand Champion said previously ...

A former police chief known as the "Devil in the Ozarks" did not have help when he walked out of a north-central Arkansas prison in May, touching off a two-week long manhunt, the head of the state's ...

ARKANSAS LAWMAKERS ARE GETTING THE CHANCE TO ASK THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS ABOUT THEIR INVESTIGATION INTO HOW GRANT HARDIN ESCAPED FROM THE CALICO ROCK PRISON ON MAY 25. GRANT HARDIN IS A FORMER ...

Champion said search teams had looked through the area before but couldn't fully investigate because of the high water. Authorities capture Arkansas prison escapee Grant Hardin near Moccasin Creek ...