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Erie County Jail
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Erie County Jail is a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Erie, Pennsylvania, operated by Erie County Sheriff's Office as a county/local jail. It has an average daily population of about 15 (FY2026 ICE data).
Capacity
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Current population
15
Occupancy
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Year opened
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Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 7 Jul 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
Erie County Sheriff's OfficePopulation held
male
Opened
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Region
Pennsylvania
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
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Data completeness
60%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- List of immigrant detention sites in the United States — Wikipedia
- Erie County Jail
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- List of immigrant detention sites in the United States — Wikipedia — Wikipedia / U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
- Wikidata (Q5388293)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Recent changes to this page
Every material update we've logged for this prison in the last 30 days. Full feed at /whats-new.
- Operator changed6 Jul 2026
Operator changed: Erie County Sheriff / Corrections → Erie County Sheriff's Office
- Population change6 Jul 2026
Current population changed from 119 to 15
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Erie County Jail. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/erie-county-jail
Chicago
"Erie County Jail." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/erie-county-jail.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-erie-county-jail,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Erie County Jail},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/erie-county-jail},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}