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Lehigh County Prison
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Lehigh County Prison is a county jail located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Rated capacity: 1,270. Reported population: 1,189. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Lehigh County Prison was a historic county courthouse located at Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1869. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981 and delisted in 1998, after being demolished.
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Capacity
1,270
Current population
1,189
Occupancy
94%
Year opened
1869
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1869
Region
Pennsylvania
Security level
Maximum
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
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
0/100
Low concern0/100
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersOccupancythis: 94% · peers avg: 93% (+1%)
Capacity (beds)this: 1270 · peers avg: 547 (+132%)
Data completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q6518802)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Lehigh County Prison. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/lehigh-county-prison
Chicago
"Lehigh County Prison." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/lehigh-county-prison.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-lehigh-county-prison,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Lehigh County Prison},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/lehigh-county-prison},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}