2022 NAICS national industry in sector 92 Public Administration
922140 Correctional Institutions
NAICS 922140 is the US industry code for correctional institutions. It covers government establishments primarily engaged in managing and operating correctional institutions.
- Code
- 922140 (2022 NAICS)
- Title
- Correctional Institutions
- Part of
- Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities
- SBA small business limit
- No SBA size standard is listed for this code.
- Closest UK SIC
- 84230 (details)
Changes coming. The NAICS 2027 revision applies to data from 1 January 2027, and SBA proposed new size standards on 20 August 2026. The values on this page are the ones in force today; we update this page when the official files change.
Official definition
This industry comprises government establishments primarily engaged in managing and operating correctional institutions. The facility is generally designed for the confinement, correction, and rehabilitation of adult and/or juvenile offenders sentenced by a court.
Examples Census gives
- Correctional institutions, public administration
- Penitentiaries, public administration
- Detention centers, public administration
- Prisons, public administration
- Jails, public administration
When to use a different code
Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:
- Government establishments primarily engaged in operating halfway houses for ex-criminal offenders and delinquent youths are classified in Industry 623990, Other Residential Care Facilities.
- Establishments primarily engaged in managing or operating correctional facilities on a contract or fee basis are classified in Industry 561210, Facilities Support Services.
Activities listed under 922140
The Census index assigns these 10 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.
- Correctional boot camps (except private operation of)
- Correctional institutions (except private operation of)
- Detention centers (except private operation of)
- Honor camps, correctional (except private operation of)
- Houses of correction (except private operation of)
- Jails (except private operation of)
- Penitentiaries (except private operation of)
- Prison farms (except private operation of)
- Prisons (except private operation of)
- Reformatories (except private operation of)
Closest UK SIC 2007 codes
There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 8423), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.
Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.
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Data last changed November 14, 2026. How this page is built.