Lebanon Correctional Institution

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The Lebanon Correctional Institution is a prison operated by the State of Ohio's Department of Corrections and Rehabilition in Warren County's Turtlecreek Township, about four miles west of Lebanon and two miles east of Monroe on State Route 63. It is immediately adjacent to another state prison, the Warren Correctional Institution, and was built in the 1950s on land purchased by the state when the Shaker settlement at Union Village closed in 1912.

The prison opened in 1960 and sits on 1,900 acres (7.7 km²) of land, much of which is used as a farm, including the raising of cows. As of 2005, there were 1,945 inmates (1,063 black and 858 white) with a staff of 554. The prison budget for fiscal year 2005 was $41,082,012, an annual cost per inmate of $19,867.31.

The Lebanon prison was featured in a March 4, 2007 episode of the television series called Lockdown on the National Geographic Channel. The episode is titled, "Predatory Inmates."

The Lebanon Correctional Facility just 65 miles southwest of the city of Columbus Ohio is home to over 2,000 prisoners today.