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Lawton Correctional Facility
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Lawton Correctional Facility is a state prison located in Comanche County, Oklahoma. Rated capacity: 2,626. Reported population: 2,611. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Lawton Correctional Center was a privately managed prison for men located in Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma, operated by the GEO Group under contract with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. The facility was opened in 1998 and had a capacity of 2682 inmates held at a mix of medium and maximum security levels. In 2025 the Oklahoma Department of Corrections purchased the facility from GEO Group for $312 million and announced that it would be re-named Red Rock Correctional Center. As of that time, there were no further privately operated prisons in the state.
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Capacity
2,626
Current population
2,611
Occupancy
99%
Year opened
1998
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1998
Region
Oklahoma
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
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q28446416)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Lawton Correctional Facility. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/lawton-correctional-facility
"Lawton Correctional Facility." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/lawton-correctional-facility.
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