The Tucker Unit is a prison in Dudley Lake Township, unincorporated Jefferson County, Arkansas,[1] 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Pine Bluff.

In 1916 the State of Arkansas purchased about 4,400 acres (1,800 ha) of land to build the Tucker Unit.

[11] In 1978 a new death chamber opened in Cummins, so Tucker was no longer the place of execution in Arkansas.

[12] On August 22, 2003, all 39 of the state's death row inmates, all of them male, were moved to the Supermax at the Varner Unit.

The same year, a Heber Springs, Arkansas man who was wanted for not reporting to his parole officer appeared at the Tucker Unit.

[18] Education in the Tucker Unit began in 1968, when the England School District started a night program.

The chapel has a sloping ceiling and a plexiglas fauxleaded window behind the altar, and it is made of cinder blocks.

The renovation, which included constructing a new roof; adding finishes to floors, pews, and walls; and installing new panes of glass, had a price of $175,000.

The ADC may finance repairs and maintenance, but as per the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution it cannot build a new religious facility.

Dan Shelton, who was 54 years old serving a 40-year sentence for kidnapping, burglary, and others, was the second of two inmates at Tucker who died in the same week during October 2018.