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Lake Correctional Institution Overview

Lake Correctional Institution is operated by the Florida Department of Corrections at 19225 U.S. Highway 27 in Clermont. It is an adult male state prison, holding sentenced felons rather than the pretrial population found in the county jail. The Department lists Warden David Colon and a rated capacity of 570. The prison sits about six miles north of Clermont on U.S. 27, with directions from SR-50 or Florida Turnpike exits 285 and 289. The facility also lists a fax line, a chaplain line, and a warden's office email for institution questions.

This page covers a state prison, so the lookup and visitation rules differ from the Lake County jail. People housed here have already been sentenced and transferred into the state system. You can see the facility details on the official state page. The FDC Lake Correctional Institution page lists the address, warden, capacity, and visiting information.

That page is the authoritative source for the prison's contact details and any change to its visiting schedule.

Lake Correctional Institution Capacity and Population

The current state facility page lists Lake Correctional Institution at a capacity of 570 for adult male inmates. It does not publish a live headcount, so the daily population is not stated. An older Florida Legislature profile reported about 1,061 state inmates in Lake County on June 30, 2020, but that figure predates the current page and should not be read as today's number for this prison.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Lake Correctional Institution

Use the Florida Department of Corrections offender search, not the Lake County jail roster, for anyone held at this prison. The state search covers sentenced state prisoners and state supervision, with a primary identifier called the DC Number.

1. Open the FDC Offender Search menu.
2. Search by last name, or by the six-character DC Number if you have it.
3. Open the record to confirm the inmate is housed at Lake Correctional Institution.
4. Read the offense, sentence, and current location, refreshed weekly with nightly location updates.

The DC Number is the Department's primary identifier, six characters that are either all numeric or one letter plus five numbers. A name search returns records whose names begin with the letters you enter, and you can choose to search aliases or limit results to records that have photos. Inmate population information and photos refresh weekly, while release dates and location changes update nightly.

The state system does not include county jail, county probation, or other non-state custody. Someone still in the Lake County jail, before any prison transfer, is found through the county roster instead, explained on the jail inmate records page.

Lake Correctional Institution Address and Contact

The prison is reached through the Department of Corrections contact lines for the facility. The warden's office handles institution-level questions.

Visiting Someone at Lake Correctional Institution

State prison visits are not walk-up like a county video visit. A visitor must be approved before visiting. Visitors age 12 and older complete an application, the DC6-111A, and processing takes about 30 days. Approved visitors then submit a weekly scheduling form within the state's window. The facility page lists visiting hours of 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The table sums up the steps.

Applications can be mailed to Classification at the inmate's facility or emailed to the facility's visitation application mailbox, and some special visit statuses require contacting Classification first. There are no walk-up visits without an approved application and a submitted weekly scheduling form. The Department explains the approval and scheduling process on its statewide page. The FDC visiting information page covers the application and weekly scheduling steps.

Always confirm approval status and the current schedule there before traveling, since prison visiting rules can change.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Lake Correctional Institution

State prison vendors are different from the county jail's. Routine mail moves through the Department's electronic delivery process, not the county jail's Securus mail center. Funds use Correct Pay, the state vendor, rather than the county deposit site. The table lists the state channels.

Do not use the county jail's commissarydeposit.com or Securus mail center for this prison. Funds may be sent only by people on the inmate's approved visiting record, under state rules. Correct Pay options include its website, a mobile app, a toll-free line, and a QR code, and money orders or certified drafts are made payable to Correct Pay. Funds sent by money order are generally available within about ten business days, though Correct Pay may post them sooner.

State Prison Versus the County Jail

It is easy to confuse a state prison with the county jail, but they answer to different agencies and serve different stages of a case. The Lake County Detention Center holds people before trial and on short sentences, run by the Sheriff. Lake Correctional Institution holds sentenced felons, run by the state. The contact, lookup, visitation, mail, and money systems are separate at each, which is why using the right one matters.

An older Florida Legislature profile counted one state prison facility and about 1,061 state inmates in Lake County on June 30, 2020. The current facility page lists a 570 capacity for Lake Correctional Institution and no live population, so that older figure should not be read as today's headcount. The takeaway for a searcher is steady: sentenced state prisoners are found through the state offender search, never the county jail roster.

Prison Admission and Transfer From the County Jail

People do not arrive at Lake Correctional Institution from a street arrest. They get here after a felony conviction and a state prison sentence. Once sentenced, an inmate leaves the Lake County jail and enters the Department's reception and classification process, which assigns custody level and facility. That is when the county roster goes quiet and the state locator takes over.

A state inmate can briefly return to the county for a court date, which is why a prisoner sometimes shows in local custody for a short time. The jail handbook even notes that returning state inmates can appear at the county jail on a return-for-court status. For the county side of that journey, the Lake County Detention Center page covers booking and pretrial custody before any transfer.

About Lake Correctional Institution

The Department lists a broad set of programs at Lake Correctional Institution, including Adult Basic Education, GED, special education, tutoring, chaplaincy, institutional betterment, re-entry programming, a library and law library, Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous, parenting, veteran support, partnership programs with UCF and Polk State, and recreation. The current facility page does not state a live population or a security level, so those are best read as not stated rather than filled in from older third-party claims. As a state prison, it follows Department of Corrections policy across custody, visitation, mail, and funds. That standard set of programs and rules is the same one used across Florida prisons, applied here to a single adult male institution in south Lake County. For custody alerts on a state inmate, Florida VINELink offers notification of release and transfer events, separate from the offender search itself.