| Prison Name: | Lake Erie Correctional Institution |
| Location: | 501 Thompson Road Conneaut, Ohio |
| Pushpin Map: | Ohio |
| Status: | open |
| Classification: | 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.