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Columbia Correctional Institution
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Columbia Correctional Institution is a state prison located in Columbia County, Florida. Rated capacity: 1,427. Reported population: 1,041. Security level: Close. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Columbia Correctional Institution is a state-operated prison for men located in Lake City, Columbia County, Florida. The facility, which first opened in 1992, has a mix of security levels, including community, minimum, medium, and close, with a capacity of 1,269 inmates. The Columbia Annex opened in October 2004 and can accommodate another 1,566 inmates at the same security levels. Both prisons are near the Lake City Correctional Facility, a privately run prison that also holds state inmates.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
1,000
Current population
1,041
Occupancy
104%
Year opened
1992
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 16 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
male
Opened
1992
Region
WI
Security level
Maximum
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.
Notable inmates
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 5/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Operating at 104% of design capacity
This facility scores 5. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 3 points above 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
- Wisconsin DOC — Prisons & Locations
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wisconsin DOC — Prisons & Locations — Wisconsin Department of Corrections
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia category â Prisons in Florida — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q28451660)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Columbia Correctional Institution. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/columbia-correctional-institution
"Columbia Correctional Institution." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/columbia-correctional-institution.
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