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In March 2024, 44 of Pennsylvania's death row inmates were moved to Somerset. [2] They were previously at SCI Phoenix, which continues to house other death penalty prisoners. [3] Almost all of the prison is in Somerset Township, [4] while a small portion is in Brothersvalley Township. [5] The total land area is 240 acres (97 ha). [3]
State Correctional Institution – Laurel Highlands is a minimum-security facility in Somerset Township, Pennsylvania, [1] about 70 miles (110 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. The prison houses minimum-security inmates, particularly geriatric and mentally ill males.
He has been at SCI Somerset since Sept. 19, 2018. His next of kin has been notified. This article originally appeared on The Daily American: SCI-Somerset inmate death being investigated.
The SCI Phoenix buildings were built on the SCI Graterford land area, and the Phoenix and Graterford buildings are about 0.25 mi (0.40 km) apart, with SCI Phoenix fencing beginning about 1,100 feet east of SCI Graterford's fencing. [12] [13] The first bidding for construction of this prison occurred in the decade of the 2000s.
SOMERSET — A counselor at the State Correctional Institute at Somerset charged with institutional sexual assault crimes has pleaded guilty in Somerset County Court.. Laurie Semelsberger, 60, of ...
Aerial view of the prison in 2024. The State Correctional Institution – Greene (SCI Greene) is a maximum security prison, classified as a Supermax, [1] located in Franklin Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, near Waynesburg, off Interstate 79 and Pennsylvania Route 21.
In January 2005, after transferring the inmates to SCI-Fayette, [5] the facility was mothballed. In 2007, the facility re-opened with its current name. [6] Until it was closed in 2017, it housed low and medium security inmates who required substance abuse treatment. The campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. [7]
The State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon [1] (SCI Huntingdon) is a close-security correctional facility in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, in the Appalachian Mountains. SCI Huntingdon is the oldest state correctional facility in continuous operation in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania .