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The Grimes Unit is a medium- and maximum-security state prison for men located in Newport, WACKENHUT TO GET OUT OF PRISON CONTRACTS
" ''Miami Herald''. February 17, 2001. 1C Business. Retrieved on March 7, 2011.
Grimes Unit, Arkansas Department of Corrections
{{State prisons in Arkansas Prisons in Arkansas Buildings and structures in Jackson County, Arkansas 1998 establishments in Arkansas Newport, Arkansas Prisons completed in the 1990s
The Grimes Unit is a medium- and maximum-security state prison for men located in Newport, Jackson County, Arkansas
Jackson County is located in the Arkansas Delta in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The County (United States), county is named for Andrew Jackson, a national hero during the War of 1812. By the county's formation in 1829, Jackson had become the Lis ...
, owned and operated by the Arkansas Department of Corrections
The Arkansas Department of Corrections (DOC), formerly the Arkansas Department of Correction, is the state law enforcement agency that oversees inmates and operates state prisons within the U.S. state of Arkansas. DOC consists of two divisions, ...
.
The facility was opened in 1998 and has a capacity of 1,012 inmates held at medium and maximum security.
Like the adjacent McPherson Unit
McPherson Unit is a Incarceration of women in the United States, prison for women of the Arkansas Department of Corrections, located in Newport, Arkansas, off Arkansas Highway 384, east of central Newport. Established in 1998, the prison houses ...
for female inmates, originally Grimes was managed by the Wackenhut Corrections Corp. (now GEO Group
The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) is a publicly traded C corporation headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, that invests in private prisons and mental health facilities in the United States, Australia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. The company ...
), beginning in July 1997. In 2001, after operating both at losses, Wackenhut stated that it would not renew the contract." ''Miami Herald''. February 17, 2001. 1C Business. Retrieved on March 7, 2011.
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Grimes Unit, Arkansas Department of Corrections
{{State prisons in Arkansas Prisons in Arkansas Buildings and structures in Jackson County, Arkansas 1998 establishments in Arkansas Newport, Arkansas Prisons completed in the 1990s