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The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Training Academy serves as a training area for prison employees working for the state and county. [14] It is located in Mount Joy Township, Lancaster County, [15] [16] near Elizabethtown and 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Harrisburg. The academy includes nine buildings on 265 acres (107 ha) of land. [14]
The Eastern State Penitentiary (ESP) is a former American prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [6] It is located in the Fairmount section of the city, and was operational from 1829 until 1971.
Holmesburg Prison, given the nickname "The Terrordome," [1] was a prison operated by the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Department of Prisons (PDP) from 1896 to 1995. The facility is located at 8215 Torresdale Avenue in the Holmesburg section of Philadelphia .
744 of the 2,600 prisoners were immediately transferred to other state penitentiaries, and officials quickly sought to transfer 150 more. The Bureau of Federal Prisons agreed to allow Federal penitentiaries in Pennsylvania to take up to 800 inmates (not the Camp Hill inmates, but state prison inmates whom they displaced after the transfer). [10]
The facility was opened in 1889 [2] and was modeled after the Elmira Reformatory in New York and was called the Huntingdon Reformatory for Young Offenders. SCI Huntingdon was used for "defective delinquents" until 1960, after that it became a maximum-security prison, housing Capital Case inmates until 1995.
S. State Correctional Institution – Albion; State Correctional Institution – Benner Township; State Correctional Institution – Cambridge Springs
The prison, located on Graterford Road off of Pennsylvania Route 29, [3] was about 31 miles (50 km) northwest of Philadelphia. [2] The prison, described by Joseph Stefano of The Philadelphia Inquirer as the primary state prison serving the Philadelphia metropolitan area, [4] once housed a small number of male death row inmates. [5]