As a result of the accompanying revenue loss, the Mohave County Industrial Development Authority's bond rating was lowered by Standard and Poors to BBB+.

It was forced out of a contract in Mississippi in 2012 as part of settlement of a federal class action suit for its operation of Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility.

The Kingman prison was constructed for the state on land in Mohave County that had been speculatively purchased before 2000 by the Dominion Correctional Services of Edmund, Oklahoma.

Dominion's proposal was supported in 2002 by a committee headed by then-state District 4 Representative and House speaker, the late Jake Flake, and Mohave County Supervisor Buster Dennis Johnson.

The prison's smaller, 1,400-bed, medium security unit was originally called Hualapai, but after it was designated a sex offender facility in 2015, tribal objections caused a name change to Huachucha.

[5][6] Seven injured inmates were transported to the Kingman hospital after a race riot at the 2,000-bed, minimum-security Cerbat unit, on Memorial Day, 2010.

On June 3, 2014, McCluskey was sentenced to life plus 235 years, but died on March 7, 2017, at Colorado's Florence ADX supermax prison.

[14] The dramatic reduction in the number of prisoners held at Kingman resulted in rapid revenue losses for associated services of businesses in the county.