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Bay Correctional Facility
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Bay Correctional Facility is a state prison located in Bay County, Florida. Rated capacity: 985. Reported population: 964. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
The Bay Correctional Facility is a private state prison for men located in Panama City, Bay County, Florida, which has been operated since February 2014 by the GEO Group under contract with the Florida Department of Corrections. This facility was opened in 1995 and has a maximum capacity of 985 prisoners. Corrections Corporation of America was the prior operator of the prison.
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Capacity
985
Current population
964
Occupancy
98%
Year opened
1995
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1995
Region
Florida
Security level
Medium
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersData completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia category â Prisons in Florida — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q28446306)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Bay Correctional Facility. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/bay-correctional-facility
"Bay Correctional Facility." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/bay-correctional-facility.
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