In conveying the defendant to the Division of Correction, the county sheriff shall have all the powers of preventing an escape, of resisting an effort to rescue the defendant, of recapturing the defendant, and of summoning persons to his or her aid that the county sheriff would have in executing a warrant of arrest in his or her county.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts
Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally
Chapter 90 - Judgment and Sentence Generally
Subchapter 4 - Execution of Sentence — Confinement
§ 16-90-401. Delivery of copy of judgment to county sheriff
§ 16-90-402. Delivery of defendant and copy of judgment to proper officials
§ 16-90-403. Power of county sheriff to prevent escape, etc
§ 16-90-404. Written return of county sheriff
§ 16-90-405. Filing of judgment with clerk
§ 16-90-407. Confinement in default of payment of fine