The Lebanon Correctional Institution is a

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in the United States operated by the

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's Turtlecreek Township, about four miles west of

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and two miles east of Monroe and about 32 miles north of

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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. In 2007, there were 2,532 inmates (1,347 black, 1,163 white, 22 Hispanic) with a total staff of 580, of which 340 are security staff. The prison budget for fiscal year 2005 was $41,082,012, an annual cost per inmate of $19,867.31. Prison inmates manufacture

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, license plate stickers, printing, and metal fabrication for institutional furniture in the prison industries plant. The Lebanon prison was featured on an episode of the National Geographic Channel series ''

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''. The episode, titled "Predators Behind Bars", broadcast on March 4, 2007.

Notable inmates

* Dellmus Colvin, Serial killer who committed a series of at least seven murders against girls and women engaged in prostitution in New Jersey and Ohio between 1987 and 2005. * Billy Milligan The "Campus Rapist" whose defense centered on

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References

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