The Warren Correctional Institution is a
prison
A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, or remand center, is a facility where Prisoner, people are Imprisonment, imprisoned under the authority of the State (polity), state ...
operated by the
Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC or ODRC) is the administrative department of the Ohio state government responsible for oversight of Ohio State Correctional Facilities, along with its Incarcerated Individuals. Ohio's pri ...
in
Warren County's
Turtlecreek Township in
Lebanon, Ohio
Lebanon is a city in Warren County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. The population was 20,841 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is part of the Cincinnati metropolitan area.
History
Lebanon is in the Symmes Purchase. Th ...
.
The prison, which opened in 1989, sits on 45 acres (182,000 m
2) of land, part of the purchase made by the state after the closure of the
Shaker settlement at
Union Village in 1912. It is immediately west of another state prison, the
Lebanon Correctional Institution
The Lebanon Correctional Institution is a prison in the United States operated by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction in Warren County, Ohio, Warren County's Turtlecreek Township, Warren County, Ohio, Turtlecreek Township, about ...
. , it has a staff of 415 and houses 1,037 inmates, about evenly divided between blacks and whites. Most of the inmates are in "close" security, the middle designation in Ohio's system. The 2005 budget is $28,249,395 and the annual cost per inmate is $25,378.
Notable inmates
*T.J. Lane - Perpetrator of the
2012 Chardon High School shooting.
*Quentin Smith (since 2019) -
Murdered police officers Eric Joering and Anthony Morelli.
See also
*
Lebanon Correctional Institution
The Lebanon Correctional Institution is a prison in the United States operated by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction in Warren County, Ohio, Warren County's Turtlecreek Township, Warren County, Ohio, Turtlecreek Township, about ...
on the same property.
References
External links
Official site
Prisons in Ohio
Buildings and structures in Warren County, Ohio
1989 establishments in Ohio
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