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Pickaway Correctional Institution
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Pickaway Correctional Institution is a state prison located in Pickaway County, Ohio. Rated capacity: 2,151. Reported population: 2,081. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Capacity
2,151
Current population
2,081
Occupancy
97%
Year opened
1984
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
Ohio Department of CorrectionsPopulation held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1984
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
The facility experienced the second-largest recorded coronavirus outbreak in the Times analysis and was described as overstuffed, with plans to rebuild shelved and no current plans to permanently address overcrowding.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 5/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Substantial documented known-issues record
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 peersReports
- propublica18 Jun 2020
ates across the country are ratcheting up pressure to further cut prison budgets, and efforts to build more prisons are on hold. Ohio has shelved plans to rebuild the overstuffed Pickaway Correctional Institution (site of the second-largest recorded coronavirus outbreak in the Times analysis) and has no current plans to permanently address overcrowding at Marion. The Ohio Department of
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
- Wikipedia category â Prisons in Ohio — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q7190761)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). Pickaway Correctional Institution. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/pickaway-correctional-institution
"Pickaway Correctional Institution." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/pickaway-correctional-institution.
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