[2] After striking ground in August 2007 at 20 Hobo Fork Road Adams Correctional Center opened July 2009.

[6] In May 2012 a riot at the facility claimed the life of Corrections Officer Catlin Hugh Carithers and left sixteen other staff members and three prisoners injured.

Twenty-five employees were held hostage during the disturbance, which was ultimately quelled by facility staff with assistance from the Mississippi Highway Patrol and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

"[8] A federal court affidavit filed by the FBI claims the riots were triggered by protests against the abysmal food and medical care provided at the facility.

[11] In August 2016, Justice Department officials announced that the FBOP would be phasing out its use of contracted facilities, on the grounds that private prisons provided less safe and less effective services with no substantial cost savings.