The facility includes an extensive working farm, a canning operation, a dairy, and beef and pork production.

In May 2005 multiple correctional officers were suspended, pending an investigation of allegations made by a former guard and whistleblower named Tommy Cardell.

Cardell went to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation claiming that he had seen 20 to 30 instances of prisoners being beaten while handcuffed, and other systematic cruel treatment.

[4] Rogers was the scene of the alleged mistreatment of a transgender female inmate named Zahara Green in July 2012.

[5] On October 25, 2019 the administration at Rogers State Prison released, due to an error, prisoner Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez, 31, who was convicted of rape and aggravated child molestation in Gwinnett County, according to Georgia Department of Corrections records.