The Citrus County Detention Facility is a privately operated jail located in

Lecanto Lecanto is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Citrus County, Florida, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 5,882, up from 5,161 in 2000. It is home to several county government facilities such ...

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, run by the

Corrections Corporation of America CoreCivic, formerly the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), is a company that owns and manages private prisons and detention centers and operates others on a concession basis. Co-founded in 1983 in Nashville, Tennessee by Thomas W. Beasley ...

to house inmates for multiple jurisdictions: the county, the

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, and the

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. The facility houses a maximum of 760 prisoners, both male and female, at mixed security levels.

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