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East Mississippi Correctional Facility
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East Mississippi Correctional Facility is a state prison located in Lauderdale County, Mississippi. Rated capacity: 1,500. Reported population: 1,266. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
East Mississippi Correctional Facility is a men's prison located in unincorporated Lauderdale County, Mississippi, near Meridian. It is about 90 miles east of the capital, Jackson. Opened in 1999, the special needs prison is intended to provide a high level of care for up to 1500 prisoners with serious mental illness, at all custody levels. Since the prison opened, it has been one of six prisons in the state operated under contract to the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) by three successive for-profit companies. EMCF was first operated by Cornell Companies, which was acquired by the GEO Group in 2010.
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Capacity
1,500
Current population
1,266
Occupancy
84%
Year opened
1999
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed
Opened
1999
Region
Mississippi
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.
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
- Wikidata (Q5329001)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). East Mississippi Correctional Facility. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/east-mississippi-correctional-facility
"East Mississippi Correctional Facility." World Prisons. Accessed October 23, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/east-mississippi-correctional-facility.
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