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McPherson Unit

Prison in Arkansas, United States

Field	Value
prison_name	McPherson Unit
location	Newport, Arkansas
status	open
classification	mixed
capacity	971
opened	1998
managed_by	Arkansas Department of Correction

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 mi east of central Newport. Established in 1998, the prison houses the state's death row for women.

The unit houses a campus of the Riverside Vocational Technical School.

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.

Notable prisoners

Death Row

Christina Marie Riggs – Executed May 2, 2000.

References

"[https://web.archive.org/web/20080705155304/http://www.adc.arkansas.gov/facilities/facilities3.html#mcpherson McPherson Unit]." [[Arkansas Department of Correction]]. Retrieved on November 22, 2010.
Haddigan, Michael. "[https://web.archive.org/web/19990508130907/http://www.arktimes.com/990409coverstory.html They Kill Women, Don't They?]" ''Arkansas Times''. April 9, 1999. Retrieved on August 15, 2010.
"[http://www.riversidevtech.org/gpage.html Campuses] {{Webarchive. link. (2011-07-27 ." Riverside Vocational Technical School. Retrieved on March 6, 2011.)
"[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MH&s_site=miami&p_multi=MH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB72FEA079B9441&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM WACKENHUT TO GET OUT OF PRISON CONTRACTS]." ''Miami Herald''. February 17, 2001. 1C Business. Retrieved on March 7, 2011.

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