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Lexington Assessment and Reception Center is a Maximum, Medium, and Minimum security facility located outside Lexington, Oklahoma. The facility first open in 1978 to help relieve crowding at Oklahoma State Penitentiary and Oklahoma State Reformatory. LARC is made up of three different facilities, the maximum facility, know as A&R houses all male offenders that have been sentenced to prison time in the custody of Department. There is also a medium yard that has its own budget it is refered to as Lexington Correctional Center and the minimum yard named after the only officer to die in the line of duty at Lexington A&R Rex Thompson.

The Facility was built on land aquired by the Department from the Navy.