United States · Ohio · Conneaut
Lake Erie Correctional Institution
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Lake Erie Correctional Institution is a state prison located in Ashtabula County, Ohio. Reported population: 1,766. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
The Lake Erie Correctional Institution is a minimum- and medium-security prison for men located in Conneaut, Ashtabula County, Ohio, owned and operated by CoreCivic under contract with the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. The facility first opened in 2000, has been owned by CCA since 2012, and has a working population of 1750 state inmates. Lake Erie was the first sale of a state prison in the United States to a private company. In 2012, Ohio state auditors deducted $500,000 from its contract at Lake Erie for violations such as understaffing, which had given rise to a high rate of violence and smuggled drugs.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
1,798
Current population
1,766
Occupancy
98%
Year opened
2000
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 6 Jul 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
Ohio Department of CorrectionsPopulation held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
2000
Region
Ohio
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
- Wikipedia category â Prisons in Ohio — Wikimedia Foundation
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q26831368)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Lake Erie Correctional Institution. Retrieved October 25, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/lake-erie-correctional-institution
"Lake Erie Correctional Institution." World Prisons. Accessed October 25, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/lake-erie-correctional-institution.
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