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| Board ends program that allowed killer to work in Mountain Home |
| By arkansasnews.com- John Lyon |
| Published: 07/30/2015 |
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LITTLE ROCK — The state Board of Corrections voted Wednesday to end a pilot program that allowed the city of Mountain Home to put state prison inmates to work as laborers. The program, which launched in June 2014, was temporarily halted last month after The Baxter Bulletin reported that a man who had been convicted of second-degree murder for killing a woman and her unborn child was working in a city park. The state Department of Corrections’ rules prohibited inmates convicted of capital murder or first-degree murder from participating in the program, among other restrictions. Benjamin Peirce, now 30, was convicted in White County in 2014 of two counts of second-degree murder and one count of first-degree battery in the shooting deaths of Crystal Timberlake and her unborn child and the non-fatal shooting of Robert Wayne Dixon. Mountain Home Mayor Joe Dillard told The Baxter Bulletin he had not been aware of Peirce’s background and had concerns about him working for the city. State Board of Corrections Chairman Benny Magness said at the time the program would be halted and reviewed. Read More. |
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