Arizona State Prison Complex – Florence
flagship prison of Arizona's 13 prison facilities operated by the Arizona Department of Corrections
Arizona State Prison Complex – Florence also known as Florence State Prison (FSP) is a facility operated by the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC). The facility stopped housing inmates long-term, and currently only houses death row inmates in their final days before the execution at the facility. The main FSP prison was located in Florence, Arizona. The Florence complex used to include a unit in Picacho in unincorporated Pinal County however, the Picacho Unit was closed and razed in early 2013. The Globe Unit in Globe is now part of ASPC-Phoenix.
The Central Unit of ASPC–Florence housed Arizona's one of two male death row cell blocks (the other at Eyman where they were both consolidated when ASPC-Florence closed down) and the State of Arizona execution chamber. FSP is the judicial site in Arizona for state executions since 1910. The death house known on the Unit as Housing Unit 9 is located beside Housing Unit 8. Lethal injection and the gas chamber are the sole methods of execution.
In 1908 inmates finished building and opened the Arizona Prison at Florence.
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