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Lawmakers give power back to the parole board to keep sex offenders in prison.

Senator David Sanders has filed four bills at the state capitol in hopes of keeping parole violators from committing new crimes.

Brian Floss, a former Fordyce teacher convicted of raping a student back in 2002, is eligible for parole, but the victim's family is asking the state parole board to deny his request.

A Sherwood man has been given parole by the Arkansas Parole Board after serving a third of his sentence for manslaughter.

Almost all the bills in this abbreviated legislative session deal with money. There are just a few exceptions. One of them is an effort to close a loophole involving parole for sex offenses.

Former Benton First Baptist Church minister David Pierce, who pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual indecency with a child in 2009, will be released on parole.