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]
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)