Location | 501 Thompson Road Conneaut, Ohio |
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Coordinates | 41°56′45.41″N 80°32′16.3″W / 41.9459472°N 80.537861°W |
Status | open |
Security class | medium and minimum |
Capacity | 1498 |
Opened | 2000; owned by CoreCivic since 2012 |
Managed by | CoreCivic |
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. [1]
The facility first opened in 2000, has been owned by CCA since 2012, and has a working population of 1750 state inmates. [2]
Lake Erie was the first sale of a state prison in the United States to a private company. [3]
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. [3]
41°56′46″N 80°32′17″W / 41.946015°N 80.537951°W