Grant Hardin is a former police chief who spent decades working in law enforcement in Arkansas. He was serving decades in prison for murder and rape when he escaped. He was captured less than two ...

Two Arkansas Department of Corrections employees were fired following an investigation into inmate Grant Hardin's escape from the North Central Unit in Calico Rock in May, where he wore a fabricated ...

Grant Hardin, a 56-year-old inmate and former police chief, is on the run after escaping the North Central Unit in Calico Rock on Sunday, May 25, according to the Arkansas Department of ...

Hardin was captured 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) northwest of the Calico Rock prison from which he escaped on May 25. Authorities said he escaped by donning an outfit designed to look like a law ...

Hardin, who was previously the chief of police in the small Arkansas town of Gateway, located near the Missouri border, had been incarcerated at Calico Rock since 2017.

Since his escape from a Calico Rock prison on May 25, 2025, local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies were working around the clock in the search for Hardin, who was serving decades-long ...

Hardin escaped from the North Central Unit prison in Calico Rock, Arkansas. The 35-year-old prison has a capacity for 800 inmates, according to the Arkansas Department of Correction (ADOC) website.

CALICO ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Department of Corrections (DOC) is facing questions by Arkansas lawmakers on Thursday, July 10, over the escape and subsequent manhunt for Grant Hardin, a former ...

Grant Hardin, who was captured June 6, appeared at the hearing via video. Hardin was captured 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) northwest of the Calico Rock prison from which he escaped on May 25.