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Frackville, Pennsylvania: State Correctional Institution – Phoenix: Skippack, Pennsylvania: Opened July 11, 2018, replacing the adjoining State Correctional Institution – Graterford, which had been Pennsylvania's largest prison. Graterford opened in 1929 and worked with Eastern State Penitentiary until its closing in 1970.
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]
This is a list of lists of U.S. state prisons (2010) (not including federal prisons or county jails in the United States or prisons in U.S. territories): US State Prisons Per State Alabama
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]
According to numbers maintained by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, there were 3,113 total assaults recorded in New York’s correctional facilities, up from ...
The "Little Scandinavia" prison project is an ongoing research project being conducted in SCI Chester by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PADOC), the Norwegian Correctional Service, the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, Drexel University and the University of Oslo. The purpose of the project is according to PADOC to "incorporate ...
The State Correctional Institution – Rockview (SCI Rockview) is a Pennsylvania Department of Corrections prison located in Centre County, Pennsylvania, 5 miles (8.0 km) away from Bellefonte. The facility is mostly in Benner Township , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] while a portion of the prison grounds extends into College Township .
Pennsylvania Department of Corrections State Correctional Institution – Somerset is a medium-security, all-male correctional facility located outside Somerset, Pennsylvania , about 70 miles (110 km) southeast of Pittsburgh , and about 5 miles (8.0 km) off the Somerset Interchange of the Pennsylvania Turnpike .