The Arkansas Board of Corrections voted to suspend Secretary of Corrections Joe Profiri during an emergency meeting today. The vote came after a series of exchanges last month as Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders held a news conference protesting the Corrections Board denying her request for additional prison beds.Sanders and Attorney General Tim Griffin said they had requested over 600 additional beds be added to the prison system, but only 130 had been approved. Profiri reportedly began adding the requested beds to the prison system this week despite the board’s objections to the additions.
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