Location of Newport in Jackson County, and location of Jackson County in Arkansas
McPherson Unit is a prison for women of the Arkansas Department of Corrections , located in Newport, Arkansas , off Arkansas Highway 384, 4 miles (6.4 km) east of central Newport. Established in 1998,[1] the prison houses the state's death row for women.[2]
The unit houses a campus of the Riverside Vocational Technical School.[3]
Originally it was managed by the Wackenhut Corrections Corp. (now GEO Group ), with the management contract beginning in July 1997. In 2001, after operating the McPherson Unit and the nearby Grimes Unit at losses, Wackenhut stated that it would not renew the contract.[4]
Notable prisoners
Death Row
References
^ "McPherson Unit." Arkansas Department of Correction . Retrieved on November 22, 2010.
^ Haddigan, Michael. "They Kill Women, Don't They?" Arkansas Times . April 9, 1999. Retrieved on August 15, 2010.
^ "Campuses Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine ." Riverside Vocational Technical School. Retrieved on March 6, 2011.
^ "WACKENHUT TO GET OUT OF PRISON CONTRACTS." Miami Herald . February 17, 2001. 1C Business. Retrieved on March 7, 2011.
External links
State prisons Work release centers
Mississippi County Work Release Center
Northwest Arkansas Work Release Center
Above facilities are male-only unless noted by ♀ (female only) or ♂♀ (both sexes)
Prisons for women in the United States
This list template only include facilities for post-trial long-term confinement of adult females and juvenile females sentenced as adults , of one or two years or more (referred to as "prisons" in the United States, while the word "jail" normally refers to short-term confinement facilities)
State prisons
Alabama Alaska
Hiland Mountain Correctional Center
Arizona Arkansas
McPherson Unit
Hawkins Center for Women
Closed
Arkansas State Farm for Women
Women removed from facility
California Converted into men's facilities
Colorado Closed
Colorado Women's Correctional Facility
Connecticut Delaware
Delores J. Baylor Women's Correctional Institution
Florida Closed Women removed from facility
Georgia Converted into men's facilities Closed
Hawaii Idaho Illinois
Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Converted into men's facilities Closed and reopened as men's facility
Louisiana Women removed from facility
Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Women removed from facility
Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Dakota Women's Correctional and Rehabilitation Center
Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Converted into men's facilities Women removed from unit
Utah
Vermont
Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility
Virginia Washington Closed
Pine Lodge Corrections Center for Women
West Virginia Women removed from facility
Wisconsin Wyoming
District and insular area prisons
District of Columbia
See Federal Bureau of Prisons
Guam Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico U.S. Virgin Islands
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