United States · Florida · Fort Myers
Lee County Jail
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Lee County Jail is a county jail located in Lee County, Florida. Rated capacity: 457. Reported population: 371. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Capacity
457
Current population
371
Occupancy
81%
Year opened
—
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
Lee County Sheriff / CorrectionsPopulation held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
—
Region
Florida
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
- 1/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · 1 oversight report in the last 5 years
This facility scores 1. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 1 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersReports
- marshall-project4 Nov 2021
e a wild horse, roaming the countryside with no respect for life, including my own. One result was a 675-mile transfer from USP Leavenworth, a medium security prison in Kansas, to USP Lee, a high security facility in Virginia. It was my third prison in eight years. I got to Lee at about 8:30 in the evening. As I walked with 30 other prisoners to G-Block, I could see the anxiety and curiosity in
Data 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
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- Georgia Department of Corrections â Locations — State of Georgia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). Lee County Jail. Retrieved October 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/lee-county-jail
"Lee County Jail." World Prisons. Accessed October 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/lee-county-jail.
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