At the prison, juvenile inmates are kept separate from the adult population but attend education classes together.

The inmate firefighter program provides protection to the largely rural communities near the prisons, as well as to other locations in Georgia during emergencies.

In 2007, inmate fire squads responded to the wildfires in South Georgia, in addition to the hundreds of other alarms they received statewide.

The football team was mostly undefeated until all local high schools refused to play them and lobbied the Georgia Department of Education to make them disband.

The prison was named after Lee Arrendale, former chairman of the Georgia Board of Corrections, after he and his wife were killed in a plane crash.