Then- Governor of Arkansas Jeff Davis wanted the state to buy a farm in Jefferson County owned by Louis Altheimer, a Republican Party leader who was Davis's friend. The prison occupied the former Cummins and Maple Grove plantations. The prison was established during that year, and prisoners began occupying the site in December. In 1902 the State of Arkansas purchased about 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) of land for $140,000 ($4,740,000 when adjusted for inflation) to build the Cummins Unit. Cummins is one of the State of Arkansas's "parent units" for male prisoners it serves as one of several units of initial assignment for processed male prisoners. The female death row is located at the McPherson Unit. The State of Arkansas execution chamber is located in the Cummins Unit, adjacent to the location of the male death row, the Varner Unit. Cummins housed Arkansas's male death row until 1986, when it was transferred first to the Tucker Maximum Security Unit. The prison first opened in 1902 and has a capacity of 1,725 inmates. This prison farm is a 16,500-acre (6,700 ha) correctional facility. Route 65, near Grady, Gould, and Varner, 28 miles (45 km) south of Pine Bluff, and 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Little Rock. The Cummins Unit (formerly known as Cummins State Farm) is an Arkansas Department of Corrections prison in unincorporated Lincoln County, Arkansas, United States, in the Arkansas Delta region. Topographic map of the Cummins Unit, U.S.
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