Lincoln Heights Jail, Former correctional facility in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, California.

Lincoln Heights Jail is a former jail complex in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, next to the Los Angeles River. Its original five-story building, completed in 1931, has an Art Deco design; the complex was expanded in the early 1950s and covers 229,000 square feet (21,300 m2).

Lincoln Heights Jail was built in 1927 at a cost of $5 million and opened in 1931 with room for 625 prisoners; a police station was built beside it. It was expanded in the early 1950s to hold 2,800 inmates, and detainees included Al Capone and people arrested during the Zoot Suit Riots and the Watts riots. The jail was decommissioned in 1965 after the City Council and County Board of Supervisors agreed to consolidate inmates in a nearby county jail to save money.

From 1979 to 2014 the jail housed the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts, which staged Spanish- and English-language theater in the former cell blocks. The building later drew film crews: its boiler room appears in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), and its roof in American History X.

The building is located on North Avenue 19 in Lincoln Heights and is accessible by public transit. Visitors should know that interior access is not always available for public viewing.

The jail appears in many films and music videos: the boiler room scenes of A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) were shot here, as were parts of American History X, Iron Man 2 and Con Air, plus music videos by Blink-182, Lady Gaga and 5 Seconds of Summer.