Joseph Harp Correctional Center
Joseph Harp Correctional Center is an Oklahoma Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Lexington, Cleveland County, Oklahoma. The medium-security facility opened in September 1978 and with a capacity of 1045 inmates is the largest medium-security prison in the state.
According to JHCC, eighty-four percent of its inmates are incarcerated after conviction for committing a violent crime, and ten percent of the inmates have committed first-degree murder. Inmates typically work in the Oklahoma Correctional Industries program, manufacturing furniture or performing data entry to convert old paper records to digital documents.
The center offers adult education programs and encourages inmates to earn a GED while serving their sentence. Offenders sentenced as youths for short periods, typically arrive under the delayed sentence program. If the youth does well, he may qualify for release with a suspended sentence, if he does not do well, he will be formally sentenced.
