The Fourth of the housing units at ASPC-Perryville (previously San Juan) is named after Brent W. Lumley, an ADC correctional officer who was killed in the line of duty.

By 2019 prisoners had reported opening packages of food products which stated that human beings were not intended to consume the items.

[4] Marcia Powell was a 48-year-old inmate who died May 20, 2009, after exposure to 107 °F temperatures for four hours in an outside cage at Perryville Prison.

[5] An autopsy report showed that Powell had first- and second-degree burns and a core body temperature of 108 degrees.

The county medical examiner found the cause of death to be due to complications from heat exposure.