United States · Florida · Lecanto
Citrus County Detention Facility
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Citrus County Detention Facility is a multi-jurisdictional facility located in Citrus County, Florida. Rated capacity: 760. Reported population: 502. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
The Citrus County Detention Facility is a privately operated jail located in Lecanto, Citrus County, Florida, run by the Corrections Corporation of America to house inmates for multiple jurisdictions: the county, the United States Virgin Islands Department of Justice, and the U.S. Marshals Service. The facility houses a maximum of 760 prisoners, both male and female, at mixed security levels.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
760
Current population
502
Occupancy
66%
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
mixed
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 (Q28447515)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Citrus County Detention Facility. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/citrus-county-detention-facility
"Citrus County Detention Facility." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/citrus-county-detention-facility.
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